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“Acrobatics, in some ways, is simple. You train hard for a long time. Slowly, you get better. With more training, you keep getting better until, eventually, your body says "enough"....”
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“All my life, I maintained a strict sense of control and discipline over my body--even in my seventies, I made a point to do five handstands a day.”
― Training is Bitter: Reflections on Life, Effort, and Acrobatics With Master Trainer Lu Yi
― Training is Bitter: Reflections on Life, Effort, and Acrobatics With Master Trainer Lu Yi
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
“...they coudn't leave their worldview behind until they felt like there was a community on the outside that would welcome them into theirs.”
― How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
― How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
“We measure the freedom of human beings by their ability to change with their environment. The only truly alien influence is the dead grasping fingers of our own past.”
― The City in the Middle of the Night
― The City in the Middle of the Night
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