"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really."

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Haile Gebrselassie

#Running Quotes #School Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.”
“My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.”
“Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.”
“The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.”
“Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era - that it is a secular substitute for religion, hallmark of modern civilization, a priori liberal and cosmopolitan, with authors appearing to implicitly embody such pious ideals - you encounter a less agreeable reality: parochialism, blinkered views, even racial prejudices of the kind the bourgeoisie have held everywhere.”
“This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.”
“People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.”

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“In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertsonâ€™s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.”

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