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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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Personal Development
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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Personal Development
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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Personal Development
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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Personal Development
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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Personal Development
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development
"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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Personal Development
"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."
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"I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results."
Interest
"I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes."
Running
"If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk."
Race
"My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated."
Health
"I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis."
Strength
"Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s."
Age
"Hills are terrific for running."
Running
"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."
Emotional
"Every race is totally different."
Race
"My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled."
Performance
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