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A society that trains its youngsters with these degraded values on the sports field will soon find the same vices everywhere else. Long ago, Duke Wellington allegedly boasted that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Nowadays we could make a less enviable claim, namely that the corruption of our institutions starts in the youth sports leagues.

Ted Gioia
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Fashion moves faster than commerce, which moves faster than infrastructure, then governance, then culture, then nature.

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