"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up,……" — Christopher McDougall
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
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Christopher McDougall
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59 Quotes by Christopher McDougall
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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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We were born to run; we were born because we run.
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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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Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a…
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There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
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