At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-old who had just run a marathon and was shot full of endorphin would say this but I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's.

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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

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There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. ― Marcus Aurelius

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

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The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

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Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.

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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

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The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

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