#no

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.' ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#always #been #dream #getting #i

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#attacked #cancer #competing #diagnosis #fearless

I know there's life after the Olympics. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#i #know #life #olympics

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#back #breaks #came #i #i came

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#catalogue #draft #draw #i #ideas

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#balances #certain #checks #disturbing #government

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#grass #his #lastly #list #name

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#child #consequently #crime #each #hate

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#advance #because #between #call #cannot