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I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. ↗

— Thucydides

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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

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In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. ↗

— Paul Getty

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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

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