"I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140."

-- Paula Radcliffe

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“I donâ€™t have to play football for money.”
“The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.”
“Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.”
“Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.”
“For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"”
“An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.”
“Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.”

Source : "WKRP In Cincinnati, 'Mike Fright'" by Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2012.
“Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.”

Source : Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.89

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