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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America not just one day a week like it was for me but every day.

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Florence Griffith Joyner
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Category: Sports

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
  • 2. The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
  • 3. These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears close our eyes and blindly follow the most narrow conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins too but I hadn't noticed the parallel before two characters forced to share a bed reluctantly.
  • 2. The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
  • 3. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

3 Anger

  • 1. A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf if it's for others deserving of your anger your empathy.
  • 2. There are two things a person should never be angry at what they can help and what they cannot.
  • 3. Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture or it isn't real.
  • 2. I was a student at Columbia College actually in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
  • 3. Yet for my part deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
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