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Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rodgers, “We sweat the same. We struggle the same.” Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.
Dean Karnazes, Why Running Matters, Runner’s World.com
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I’m not sure what these cowards hope to accomplish by this whole thing but I do know they picked the wrong group of people to try to break and discourage… Runners overcome doubts and pain… they’re some of the strongest, resilient bunch of people that I know…
It’s not gonna crush us, it’s not gonna break us.
We’re a very strong community.
Josh Cox, 50K American Record-Holder (excerpt from his interview on the recent Boston Marathon tragedy)
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The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.
Augustus William Hare

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