"In a 100-miler, anything can happen. Speed isn't your biggest thing, you need to learn how to mentally get through it. It is very mental."

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#Speed Quotes #Anything Can Happen Quotes

“Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messiah. Until someone proves otherwise, therefore, these stories must be considered nothing more than folk tales consisting in equal parts of legend and wish fulfillment.”
“Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.”
“Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are of little consequence. Man the trapper becomes man the taxidermist, disemboweling nature of its spontaneity and movement, and stuffing it with a leaden inanimateness.”
“I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia Oâ€™Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast Oâ€™Keeffe â€˜Sky Above Cloudsâ€™ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.”
“The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.”
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”

Source : Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
“I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.”

Source : Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.
“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”

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