"Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27."

-- Alberto Salazar

#New York Quotes #Winning Quotes #Men Quotes

“And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.”
“Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.”
“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”

Source : Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel (2001). “Long Drums and Cannons”, p.38, University of Alberta
“We never thought we were. That's the important part.”
“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”
“The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.”
“The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.”

Source : "Blair confronts 'evil ideology'". www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.
“O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence”

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