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Al Oerter

"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history."

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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."

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"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."

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"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history."
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