"You can't magic yourself back 10 years."

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Source : "Paula Radcliffe set for surgery as Olympic preparation begins" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

Paula Radcliffe

#Years Quotes #Magic Quotes

“Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.”
“Insanity is the insistence on meaning.”
“I used to be squeamish a long time ago and I guess, secretly squeamish, no... but I have a huge respect for the human body and what we do and so I think it's a massive privilage for people to let you operate on them. And I used to be very "OOOH GOSH! THIS IS BAD!" but to see people bleeding and suffering is bad and I will never get over that, but being able to do something about it, means that you're no longer squeamish.”
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.”
“You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.”
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

Source : "The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night". Book by John Payne, Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13., 1885.
“My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.”

Source : Song: The Prayer
“The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.”

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