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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don’t believe it of any other sport but their own.

Alistair Cooke

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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Contribute Fact Myth Sport
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
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Cooking Country Food Person
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don’t believe it of any other sport but their own.
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Believe People Sport
Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. ‘Topless Pizza Lunch’.
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Cut Food Lunch
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
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Golf Satisfactory Year
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.
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Bud Golf Idealistic Special
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.
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Country Mind People Person
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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Fellow Habit Man Men
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
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Best Children Christian Friend
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
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Curiosity Intelligence Wheeling
The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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Garden Golf Party

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don’t believe it of any other sport but their own.

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