“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
~Elmer Davis.
United States
George W. Bush: American resolve
“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.”
—George W. Bush.
Woody Allen: Beverly Hills and television shows
“In Beverly Hills, they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.”
~Woody Allen
Ryan Hall: How do you feel?
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John Wooden: Success

John Wooden at a ceremony on Oct. 14, the coach’s 96th birthday, to name the Reseda post office after the sports legend and long-time San Fernando Valley resident. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden, American basketball player and coach
Abraham Lincoln: Knowing better
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. ”
Abraham Lincoln

Kara Goucher: Progress
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
American Indian Proverb: Asleep…
“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo”
American Indian Proverb

Abraham Lincoln: Cowards

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
—Abraham Lincoln
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Martin Luther King Jr: Directly, indirectly
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Frank Shorter: Racing…
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It’s part of racing.
Frank Shorter, U.S. Olympic Marathoner
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Dean Karnazes: Running

English: Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes signs books at the Napa Valley Marathon pre-race expo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Dean Karnazes, ultrarunner
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Abraham Lincoln: Tact
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. –Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US (1809-1865)
Stanislaw J. Lec: Beyond America
Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn’t got in the way. -Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)
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Cicero: Black at heart
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
George Bernard Shaw: Respectability

English: Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw writing in notebook at time of first production of his play “Pygmalion.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”
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Colin Powell: Experts
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
—Colin Powell.
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Henry Kissinger: High office

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Kristin Armstrong: I will
I’m glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can. Maybe that spot is called I will.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Work

English: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ID #65732 Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ”
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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ”
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“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”
– Anatole France
Samuel Johnson: Belief and disbelief

Portrait of Samuel Johnson commissioned for Henry Thrale’s Streatham Park gallery (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ”
—Samuel Johnson
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Emily Dickinson: Heartbreak

English: A cabinet card copy of a daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson (unauthenticated) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ”
—Emily Dickinson
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Ryan Hall: Suffering
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Ryan Hall, U.S. Olympic marathoner
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Benjamin Franklin: Knowledgeable investment
“An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.”
Cicero: Higher humility

Marcus Tullius Cicero, after whom Teuffel named his Ciceronian period of the Golden Age. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Charles Templeton: Christianity

Stained glass at St John the Baptist’s Anglican Church http://www.stjohnsashfield.org.au, Ashfield, New South Wales. Illustrates Jesus’ description of himself “I am the Good Shepherd” (from the Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 11). This version of the image shows the detail of his face. The memorial window is also captioned: “To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of William Wright. Died 6th November, 1932. Aged 70 Yrs.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ”
Shelby Harthcock: Love
“Loving someone is easy but losing someone is hard.”
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