"Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest."

-- Christopher McDougall

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“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”
“When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”
“The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.”
“Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.”

Source : Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.82, Random House
“The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.”
“It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.”
“We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.”
“Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean)”

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