Billie Jean King Quotes
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
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Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
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Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
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Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
