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“Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!”

Knows Wells Heart Persons Running Numbers Greater Risk Amount Disease Fats Diabetes Heart Disease

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”

People Ifs May Long Running Certain Business Class Amount Higher Cost Approach Add Believer Long Runs Cheap Things

Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President

“No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.”

Running Kids Today Used Amount Walking Basketball Training Shoes Track Extremes Bags

Author:Edwin Moses

“Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.”

Running Our Lives Amount Transformation Proportion Running Away

Author:Vernon Howard

“It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.”

People Giving Important Enough Running Race Economy Amount Limits Access Candidates

Author:Christie Hefner

“There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.”

Kind May Running Certain Grows Seeing Amount Balls Tired Golf Excitement Flags

Book:Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast

Source: Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert