"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."

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Source : "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

Roger Bannister

#Athlete Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.”

Source : Song: Life's for the Living
“"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.”
“Yet still we hug the dear deceit.”

Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1791). “Various Pieces in Verse and Prose: Many of which Were Never Before Published”, p.166
“I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.”
“That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.”
“Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.”
“The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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