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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

-Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

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Things break all the time. glass and dishes and fingernails. cars and contracts and potato chips. you can break a record, a horse, a dollar. you can break the ice. there are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. day breaks, waves break, voices break. chains can be broken. so can silence, and fever... promises break. hearts break.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. but he broke their chains. then he was enslaved by the kings. but he broke their chains. he was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. but he broke their chains. he declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. and he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

Mr hemingway does it extremely well. nothing matters. everything happens. one wants to keep oneself loose. avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. don't get connected up. if you get held by anything, break it. don't be held. break it, and get away. don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. just get away, for the sake of getting away. beat it! "well, boy, i guess i'll beat it." ah, the pleasure in saying that

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that i drink another whiskey and soda. i, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. it's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. it's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. it's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again.

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