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Christopher McDougall has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…
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Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just…
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The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and…
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Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of…
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We were born to run; we were born because we run.
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If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
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The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
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Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a…
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Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for…
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There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is…
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We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have…
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed,…
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Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy,…
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It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet…
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What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this…
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I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I…
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