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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to im

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes

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Language
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Roland Barthes
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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Society
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Roland Barthes
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Sports
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Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans. – Dick Young

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Sports

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. – Sylvester Stallone, 1990

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Sports

These Sports Illustrated people, they know how to hold a secret. – Bar Refaeli

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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment. – Randy Castillo

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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. – Lafcadio Hearn

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If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. – P.Z. Pearce

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Politics is the womb in which war develops. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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