"Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading."

-- Frank Shorter

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“By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.25, NYU Press
“Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.”
“My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”
“It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.”
“With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“Where you have friends you should not go to inns.”
“Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.”

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