I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
John MajorAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: british
- Born: March 29, 1943
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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.
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