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Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#another #because #days #did #disappoint

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#considerable #english #english school #event #games

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#cotton #domestic #education #had #leave

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aside #become #been #break #career

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. ↗

— William Banting

#become #bodily #history #matters #mere

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#concerned #distribution #entropy #given #hand

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#armed #arrows #bows #common #dressed

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#contemplation #had #his #known #life

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

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