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“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
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“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
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“This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.”
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“Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.”
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“Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.”
Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
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“The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.”
Source : "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012. 
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“Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.”
Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?”
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“You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
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“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”
