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“No horse named Morbid ever won a race.”

Book:Across the River and Into the Trees

Source: Across the River and Into the Trees

“Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.”

Inspirational Motivational Winning Race Duty Horse Necks

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.”

Believe Moving Faith Race Mountain Capable Horse Wondrous Herring Race Horses

Book:the god that failed

Source: the god that failed

“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”

Ifs Trying Running Winning Leadership Loss Race Achievement Horse Encouragement Faster Weight Loss Accord Spirited

Author:Ovid

“It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.”

Source: If I lived my life again

“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.”

Knows Self Running Past Interest Race Morality Horse Posts Memorable Self Interest Ranting And Raving Punters

Author:Gough Whitlam

“Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.”

May Love Is Race Horse Efficiency Machinery Freemasonry

Author:William Fawcett

“How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!”

Ifs Men Mind Soul Action Dark Race Lord Movement Horse Symbols Potency Dark Souls

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.”

World Trying Race Horse Race Horses

Author:Joely Fisher

“I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.”

Eye Running Race Horse Raised Crowds Focused Compare Distraction Blinders Thoroughbreds

Author:Marlo Thomas

“The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.”

Men Real Artist Race Cities Steps Information Horse Invention Warrior Meat Giants Empires Hunting Agriculture Hunters Entertainers Clerks Laborers Wrong Direction Real Work Processors

Author:Edward Abbey

“Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.”

Men Doe Sleep Race Behinds Horse Intelligent Mere Careful Wide Buddhist Awake Careless Hacks Intelligent Man Wide Awake Race Horses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track in particular. Horses may win races, but they also win hearts as this impressive book proves beyond doubt. A memorable, sure-footed debut.”

Writing Heart May Book Winning Race Doubt Week Particular Victory Prove Six Horse Track Treasure Tales Memorable Impressive Good Writing Debut

Author:Madeleine Blais

“We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991.”

Years Reality Race Five Horse Innovation Competition Versions Five Years Chips

Author:Lou Dobbs

“Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.”

Knows Political Fall Politics Race Know How Horse Damage Jockeys Race Horses

Author:Edouard Herriot

“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”

“Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.”

Race Cost Performances Horse Increase Irony Fancy Ironic Questionable Race Horses

Author:Lord Kelvin

“It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.”

Men Looks Young Dark Race Boys Rich Son Office Horse Improvement Cousin Advancement Rich Man Sweeping Nephew Dark Horse

Book:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

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