If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.


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JACQUES ROUMAIN
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing...
JACQUES DERRIDA
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, thing...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ
marmfloxes
BRIAN JACQUES
The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it
BRIAN JACQUES
Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars,...
BRIAN JACQUES
Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!"

Alarm spread acr...
BRIAN JACQUES
A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
BRIAN JACQUES
Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRIAN JACQUES
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
BRIAN JACQUES
Wot Wot
BRIAN JACQUES
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back t...
JACQUES DERRIDA
This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ...
JACQUES PEPIN
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
JACQUES DERRIDA
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned....
JACQUES CHIRAC
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ...
JACQUES PEPIN
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA
When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&...
JACQUES PEPIN
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ...
JACQUES PEPIN
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener...
JACQUES LACAN
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
JACQUES AUDIARD
When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
JACQUES PEPIN
It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f...
JACQUES LIPCHITZ
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,...
JACQUES COUSTEAU
And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo...
JACQUES ELLUL
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical...
JACQUES ELLUL
The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg...
JACQUES VERGES
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w...
JACQUES LACAN
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS
I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
JACQUES DERRIDA
It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,
BRIAN JACQUES
I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!
BRIAN JACQUES
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --...
BRIAN JACQUES
Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it,
BRIAN JACQUES
I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f...
BRIAN JACQUES
Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.
BRIAN JACQUES
Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th...
BRIAN JACQUES
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins...
JACQUES LACAN
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital d...
JACQUES BARZUN
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do...
JACQUES DERRIDA
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their...
JACQUES MARITAIN
The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th...
JACQUES ELLUL