"In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing."
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"There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god."
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"Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man."
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"The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life."
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"I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading."
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"This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere."
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"Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back."
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"Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice."
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"The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible."
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"I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy."
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"I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it."
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"My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time."
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"The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!"
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"Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things."
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"Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties."
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"You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates. That starts off with my commitment to waking up early, training hard, lifting weights, and running. It's in my nutrition. It's just making sure I always put myself in the best possible position."
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"You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive."
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"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
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"A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run."
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"I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?"
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