Ed Ayres quotes
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“It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides”
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“Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.”
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“What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.”
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“Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.”
-- Ed AyresSource : Ed Ayres (2013). “The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance”, p.91, Workman Publishing
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“We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.”
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“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”
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Source : "Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,
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Source : Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.72, University of Toronto Press
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Source : "The History of Ancient Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Ritter, translared by Alexander James William Morrison, Volume 1, 1838.
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“The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.”
Source : Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)
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