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«The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.»
Author: Avery Brundage
(Administrator, President)
| Keywords:
amusement, higher education, pastime, re-creation, recreation, sportsman, vocation
«Naked I came, and naked I leave the scene, And naked was my pastime in between»
«Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.»
Author: Joseph Cornell
| Keywords:
boxes, metamorphoses, pastime, poetic, settings, theaters, wherein
«Killing is practically a Filipino national pastime but on Mindanao it's an industry.»
Author: Leonard Mosley
| About:
Killing
| Keywords:
Filipino, Filipinos, Mindanao, pastime, practically
«There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.»
«What's the most popular pastime in America? Autoeroticism, hands down.»
Author: Scott Roeben
| Keywords:
autoeroticism, handed-down, hands down, most popular, pastime, pastimes
«True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Debauchery
| Keywords:
creates, debaucheries, debauchery, favorite, favorites, hence, liberating, lovers, obligations, of their own, pastime, pastimes, possess, remains
«There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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accounts, amazingly, blew, drastically, every other, factor, fifteen, finely, institution, managed, mystique, pastime, pastimes, pedestal, pedestals, pro, progression, pros, pro football, small number, The Pros, varies, vis-a-vis
«Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.»
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