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Barry S. Strauss has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes…
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…
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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and…
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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,…
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Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into…
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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you…
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the…
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.…
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as…
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become…
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
— Dave Barry
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Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
— Bowie Kuhn
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
— Elie Wiesel
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Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
— Mason Cooley
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
— Samuel Johnson
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
— Humphry Davy
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Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's…
— Conan O'Brien
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I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.
— Morris Chestnut
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish…
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