"After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Jessica Ennis

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“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.”
“Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.”
“That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.”

Source : "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.
“Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.”
“I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.”
“Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.”
“Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers”

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