"Football: A sport that bears the same..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
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“If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.”
“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”
“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.”
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“Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.”
“If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.”
“It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."”