"Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life."

-- Bill Bowerman

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“There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.”
“Hiking is really great for centering; you get to be out in nature and although sometimes it seems like hell when you're getting up that mountain, it always feels good when you're done.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.”
“The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.”
“Language is butchered by the media”
“My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.”
“My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.”
“I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.”

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