"The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward."
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"Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?"
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"If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life."
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"The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)"
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"It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future."
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"Why do some bald guys grow ponytails? It it the same reason people too old to run always wear track shoes and sweat pants?"
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"The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come."
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"The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline."
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"When I run - you can see my record - I run to win."
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"If you go by other people's opinions or predictions, you'll just end up talking yourself out of something. If you're running down the track of life thinking that it's impossible to break life's records, those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet."
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"The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning."
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"Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in."
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"And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash."
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"We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious."
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"Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us"
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"In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it."
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"Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments."
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"Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?"
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"None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters."
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"In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate."
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