"Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started."

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Steve Prefontaine

#Distance Quotes

“Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.”

Source : As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,
“No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.”
“Your Twitter Profile is your business card.”
“I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.”
“I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.”
“...we have got to deal with increased demand for energy, increased demand for food, increased demand for water, and we've got to do that while mitigating and adapting to climate change. And we have but 21 years to do it”
“My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone”
“It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.”

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