"It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do."

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Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.8, Open Road Media

Alan Sillitoe

#Running Quotes #Soul Quotes #World Quotes

“Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.”
“I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.”
“The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.”
“...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.”
“The term 'genius' is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.”
“The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.”

Source : "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.
“I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.”
“The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.”

Source : John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.440, John Wiley & Sons

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