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“What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity, a society where people can live in peace and happiness. People are tired of games played for power and profit. People are tired of hatred and conflict. They want to live with more wisdom and confidence, and in peace. It may seem like a long and distant path, but I am convinced that the 21st century must see a movement to sow the seeds of peace, happiness and trust in every person's heart. The seeds of a truly humane way of life. I am convinced this is the only path.”

“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.”

“I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.”

Thinking World Needs Games Sports Term Century Media Humble Life Or Death

Author:Tim Tebow

“From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish.”

War Games Successful Century England Kingdoms Occasions Scotland Dutch Wales British History Continental Cromwell

Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.”

Men Writing Heart Important Book Together Lasts Games Half Written Century Hero Baseball Extraordinary Patient Complicated Treasure Genuine Combination Consistent 20th Century

Author:Ken Burns

“No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.”

Games Journey Century Golfers Pilgrimage Andrew Mecca

Author:Alex Shoumatoff

“If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.”

Ifs Needs May Children Ideas Today Mother Suffering Games Parent Class Cases Economic Middle Century Football Accomplishment Middle Class

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.”

Should Book Games Century Fairs Including Violent 21st Century Toilets Fair Game Reprisal Flushing

Author:Sam Harris

“Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.”

Games Struggle Century Football Baseball Technological Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player”

Games Causes Greater Player Century Produce Regret Impact Chess Twentieth Century Fischer

Author:John Nunn

“The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.”

Kind Important Games Names Natural Economy Share Century Development Late Resources Scales Manufacturing Precision Natural Resources Processing Large Scale

Author:Charles R. Morris