"I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs."

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Source : Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

Jesse Owens

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“The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.”

Source : "Ever the Warrior / Gay rights icon Harry Hay has no patience for assimilation" by Dan Levy, www.sfgate.com. June 23, 2000.
“Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.”
“I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.”
“I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
“I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.”

Source : "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.
“The challenges, the changes we're talking about often seem to them like unbelievable opportunities to deliver a product quicker, better. If you can improve the quality, lower the cost, and improve the turns - and you can do that because your information systems, your delivery systems, are better because of technology - well, you see that as a wonderful opportunity to gain market share.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.”
“At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.”

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