"Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary."

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Source : Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.120, BookBaby

Clarence DeMar

#Running Quotes #Balance Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.”

Source : Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.159, Penguin UK
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”
“I think all writing is done through memory”
“Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.”
“The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.”
“It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.”

Source : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.

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