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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Running

"The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade."

Running Love Passion
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Michael Patrick King Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Running

"'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes."

Running Sex New York
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Donald Miller Author
Running

"You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories."

Running Beautiful Meaningful
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"Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running for endurance, working on your technique. The second monster is your mental preparation-all our jabbering about humility, battling for your life, taking complete responsibility for the outcome. The last monster is your X Factor, your soul, your courage. Taken altogether, I call this three-headed monster the Process of Winning."

Running Taken Responsibility
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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Running

"The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear."

Running America Stupid
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Running

"the title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since."

Running Sweet Queens
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
Running

"The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field."

Running Sports Bodybuilding
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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer
Running

"I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything."

Ideas Running Differences
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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
Running

"Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away."

Needs Running Helping
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Dave Allen Comedian
Running

"We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock."

Giving Running Sleep
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Robert K. Merton Sociologist
Running

"The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable."

Mind Running Risk
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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Running

"When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out."

Running America Energy
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John F. Kennedy Jr. Lawyer, Journalist, Author
Running

"Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally."

Running Military Office
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