"Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage."

-- Walter Lord

#Running Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Premium Quotes

“Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press
“To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start”
“I just want to leave a committed life behind.”
“What people don't tell you is freedom comes with a lot of work! I'm definitely grateful for the freedom to call my own shots. However, you don't have the luxury of leaning on a squad of people to put stuff in motion. It's just you and your homeboys trying to figure it out. It gets challenging at times.”
“The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.”
“Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”
“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
“It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.”

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