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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)

by George R.R. Martin

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The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine – An Essential 50th Anniversary Reappraisal of an American Icon by Brendan O'Meara

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By 1967, Ron Clarke, the great Australian runner and owner of several world records from two miles to 10,000 meters, wrote in The Unforgiving Minute, “Consistent training, not over two or three months, but over two or more years, is the ...more

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“Earlier in this Stoic Virtues series, we defined courage as putting our ass on the line, and self-discipline as getting your ass in line.”
― Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

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“But we shouldn’t be surprised that the world feels historically broken in recent years and will continue that way going forward. It’s not—we just see more of the bad stuff that’s always happened than we ever saw before.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

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