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The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
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Games
Humanity
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
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Effort
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
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Class
Youth
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
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Games
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
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Games
Nations
World
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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Life
Winning
Fighting
Games
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
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Life
Victory
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
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Life
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
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Happiness
Power
Balance
Day
Effort
Interest
Thinking
Vanity
Will
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
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Age
Property
Race
Spirit
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
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Men
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
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Life
Idea
Possibility
Reality
World
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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Games