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Kerri's War

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“¿Sabéis lo que hace tan delicada al paladar la carne de esos patés trufados de Estrasburgo con los que os atracáis en la comida? Pues que al animal que os reservaban lo hicieron saltar sobre planchas de metal al rojo vivo, y que no lo mataron sino hasta que su hígado se puso lo bastante hinchado y tumefacto para resultar apetitoso. ¡Qué importa su suplicio si ha contribuido a hacernos disfrutar! También el genio se eleva en lento sufrimiento, esos gritos del corazón que admiráis, esos pensamientos elevados que os hacen vibrar, nacieron de lagrimas que no habéis visto, de angustias que desconocéis. ¿Y eso qué? Bien debía terminar comido el animal y bien había de hablar el poeta. ¡Mejor pues que hayan sufrido en sus entrañas, si la carne del primero es exquisita, si deleitosa la frase del segundo!”

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“Elite athletes know something that most people don’t—adversity is the best thing that can happen to you. The competitors here at the Games know that humans only improve through adversity by embracing short-term pain. Ensuring there is no struggle, no challenge, and staying in your wheelhouse is a recipe for spinning your wheels without improving. It’s the days when you have to do things that scare you, when you have to take risks, when you have to push against challenge and difficulty—those are the days that make you stronger, faster, and better overall.”

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“It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,” he wrote. “I had my problems winning. I felt several times like giving into the pain and letting Gary [sic] win but I just couldn’t. I just kept driving myself harder and harder, longer and longer.”

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