"I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time."

-- Billy Mills

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“The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.”
“At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!”
“It’s an old Orc axe, which means he’s been in battle. Orcs have killed members of his family, and he’s trying to find the Orc that did it to him so that he can give it back. But as the journey goes on, Bifur actually becomes more lucid. He becomes a bit more focused, and the journey is a bit healing for him.”
“We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.”
“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
“The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.”
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.”

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