"The first mile is mental. The rest are all heart."

-- Summer Sanders

#Running Quotes #Heart Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.”
“At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.”

Source : "Mayor Ed Lee: ‘Tech Workers Are Not Robots’". Interview with Willy Staley, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2013.
“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”

Source : "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity". Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, nickbostrom.com. 2005.
“Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.”

Source : "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.
“Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.”
“Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.”
“The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.”

Source : Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.95, Penguin
“People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.”

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