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“With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Before the first step, before the first muscle twitches, before the first neuron fires, there comes a choice: stand still or move. You choose the right option. Then you repeat that choice one hundred thousand times. You don’t run thirty miles, you run a single step many times over. That’s all running is; that’s all anything is. If there’s somewhere you need to be, somewhere you need to get to, or if you need to change or move away from where or what you are, then that’s all it takes. A hundred thousand simple decisions, each one made correctly. You don’t have to think about the distance or the destination or about how far you’ve come or how far you have to go. You just have to think about what’s in front of you and how you’re going to move it behind you.”
― Adrian J. Walker, The End of the World Running Club