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The Natural Way of Things

by Charlotte Wood (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 10, 2017 09:24AM

“Rowing is perhaps the toughest of sports. Once the race starts, there are no time-outs, no substitutions. It calls upon the limits of human endurance. The coach must therefore impart the secrets of the special kind of endurance that comes from mind, heart, and body. —George Yeoman Pocock”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
― Rumi

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“If you are an artist who pays too much attention this system and its politics, you are in deep trouble because you have become a follower.”
― John Seed, Ten Rather Eccentric Essays on Art: Reflections on Damien Hirst, postmodernism, the art market, food in art and more...

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“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
― Ovid

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“Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race—the Olympic standard—takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back. And it exacts that toll in about six minutes.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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