When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me.. why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. . Noam Chomsky
Higher-level capture devices, because they are complicated and involve novel applications of new technologies, tend to fail in unexpected ways. Thus, only after some years was it realized that Hot Spot may not work well if the weather is very hot and that it may...
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Harry Collins
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
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Vince Lombardi Jr.
The score never interested me, only the game.
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Mae West
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
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Babe Ruth
I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
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Michael Jordan
More Quotes By Noam Chomsky
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
