"I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event."

-- Paula Radcliffe

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“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.”
“I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.”
“For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.29, Modern Library
“The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.”
“Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.”
“When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier”
“As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.”

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