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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#cook #counter #decorate #duck #granite

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#great #guide #idea #ideal #includes

There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#become #coaches #complacent #completely #disagree

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beings #birds #change #different #different place

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#clocks #fathers #indians #least #merely

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capable #compassion #former #great #his

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#boat #great #hope #literal #man

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title. ↗

— Kirsty Coventry

#coming #defend #greedy #how #hungry

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#lose #mind #miss #much #older