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"I'd rather be running the game than playing it."
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"And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else."

"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."

"Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?"

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

"I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m."

"Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against."

"It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago."
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"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."


"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures."


"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."


"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."


"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."
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