Benefit Year or Season
A Benefit year or season is a period during which a sports person is granted the benefit of various activities by his or her club or other organisation.
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Famous quotes containing the words benefit, year and/or season:
“Henceforth may the neglected lover constantly read me, and may my troubles, once they are known, be of some benefit to him.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“They give us a pair of cloth shorts twice a year for all our clothing. When we work in the sugar mills and catch our finger in the millstone, they cut off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off our leg: both things have happened to me. It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“Compare ... the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)