"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."

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"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."

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"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."

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"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."

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"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."

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"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."

"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."

"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."

"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."

"All sports for all people."

"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."

"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty."

"All sports must be treated on the basis of equality."

"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."