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“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”
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“The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo because they are gone, or which hold no import because they are yet to happen. What is important is the here and now, and now, and now, and the spaces between the nows.”
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“Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.”
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“Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.”
Source : Hal Higdon (2011). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons”, p.207, Rodale
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“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
Source : "Botswana Blues: Orgies of talk in Africa" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. June 02, 2003.
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“The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.”
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“For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.”
Source : Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61
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“Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.”
Source : Interview with E. Vesnina, www.wimbledon.com. June 25, 2012.