Equivalent Strength

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“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
—Irish proverb.

An English equivalent to this might be, “To everything there is a season.”

“Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)