"Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports."

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Source : "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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#Sports Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Burnout Quotes

“Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.”
“Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.”

Source : Deborah Copaken Kogan (2002). “Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War”, Random House Incorporated
“I was a drummer and I played the guitar.”

Source : "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.
“Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.”

Source : Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
“Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.”

Source : "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.
“My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.”
“My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.”

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