"No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day."

-- Edwin Moses

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“That which does not kill you isn't finished.”
“It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.”
“There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”
“Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.”
“You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.”
“We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians â€“ they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.”
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
“You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.”

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