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Other Quotes by Christopher McDougall
- The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
- We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have…
- Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
- Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were…
- For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
- -The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer;…
- ...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended…
- Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People.…
- There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get…
- We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you…
More Other Quotes
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour