"The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage."

-- Franz Stampfl

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“My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
“Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.”
“The most prepared are the most dedicated.”
“I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.”

Source : "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".
“Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.”
“Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!”

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