"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."

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Source : Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

Roger Bannister

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“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.”

Source : Karen Traviss (2011). “Hard Contact: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.165, Del Rey
“A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.”

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand
“My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.”

Source : "Bhutto's Son to Lead Her Party". "The Bryant Park Project" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. December 31, 2007.
“I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs and lows of those challenges - to have really experienced that unsettling place where ambition crosses over into something else entirely.”
“The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.”

Source : Berton Braley, “Opportunity”
“Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.”
“Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.”
“The accountability rests with me.”

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