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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses…
— Kano Jigoro
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Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
— David Leadbetter
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Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
— John Dewey
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No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must…
— Billie Jean King
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
— Eduard Bernstein
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The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
— Lewis Mumford
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One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.
— PSY
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He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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