"... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?"

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Source : Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

Mimi Pond

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“Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.”
“Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.”
“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
“In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'”
“Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.”
“He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.”
“Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.”
“As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.”

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