"Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer."

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Source : Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

Paul Shepard

#Horse Quotes #Distance Quotes #Men Quotes

“To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.”
“To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”
“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.62, Open Road Media
“You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.”

Source : "Hannan Rips PM Brown; Obama on Same Path?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2009.
“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.411, LSU Press
“It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.”

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