“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature” – Thorstein Veblen
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"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature" – Thorstein Veblen
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature" – Thorstein Veblen
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