"Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy."
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"Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy."
"You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen."
"Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents."
"Eats first, morals after."
"Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad."
"People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them."
"The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so."
"When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain."
"Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly"
"First the pork chops, then morality"
"Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace."
"Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself."
"What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it."
"When the praying does no good, insurance does help."
"When you name yourself, you always name another."
"Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!"
"Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?"