Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real evil of professionalism is not that certain laborers receive their hire: it is that they take the place of the true amateur. Where the imported athlete flourishes, local talent withers. Each myrmidon deprives dozens of good men of the incentive to training. When the true amateur spirit prevails, a college centers its pride not merely in the prowess of its teams, but also in the gross number of its students who learn to love sport for the sake of sport and of the health in body and in mind which it engenders. No institution is secure in virtue until...
...platform, no one would receive less than "A" in any of his courses. The night watchman has only to be "wished" somewhere else, to make burglary mere child's play And so it goes. The fate of the world is easy to see. Let us therefore nip the evil in the bud; let it be unlawful to wish, will, think, agitate, or otherwise employ the human mind. Then, and only then, will this fearful disruption of civilization be averted...
...remedy until more of our owners are willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy has never accomplished its purpose--except in England, where it was employed solely to encourage the building of large, fast vessels, such as the Olympic, which would...
Believes War Greatest Evil...
...believe", said Count Tolstoy, "that war is the greatest evil of man-kind, I believe that war is a crime, and I believe that evil will never bring any good results. Revolution being the child of the war had to turn into evil. It turned into Bolshevism, which means civil war and destruction". There are two kinds of Bolshevists, Count Tolstoy, continued, the leaders and the crowd. Of the leaders, he said: "Some of them may be honest people, but if they are, they are dreamers and fanatics--the kind of fanatics that are on the verge of insanity...