"Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter."

-- Charles C. Mann

#Cities Quotes #Matter Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.”

Source : Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.80, Rodale
“I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.”
“On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'”
“I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Every fight means everything. I have to stay focused no matter how high the stakes are or how low the stakes are, you have to stay focused and follow the game plan. At the end of the day it is going to be you and that guy in the ring and it's who wins the game will win the fight. That's what I learned.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
“I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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