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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens. How did you get your start in cross-country? I joined the Brockton High (MA) Cross Country Team my junior year to help with my fitness for the upcoming…
There is no such thing as practice – it’s all real. – Barker Ajax The second rule of Rebel Club. Know what the hell you are rebellious about. Think about rebelling FOR something, rather than against something else. “Thinking outside the box” accepts the concept of a box. Rebels do not get boxed in. Watched some talented…
The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. – Ken Doherty The photograph of you jumping over that barrier makes this whole project worthwhile. I am so glad I made it worthwhile. It is seriously funny.Imagine the next step. With both feet up,…
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit’s eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson’s eyes and ask him if it hurts….
Original Gangsters of Running and their cross-country experience. Being a series of conversations about the joys of running through the woods and fields and golf courses of cross-country. And I’ll tell you why. Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport. – Chuck Norris How did…
Being emotionally rich everyday has the power to produce all other riches. – Hiral Nagda $1,745,000 2 bd 3 ba 1,116 sq ft 828 Duval St, Key West, FL 33040 A sale is “pending.” There has been previous pending. I deny I purchased three tickets and claimed I was in the market for a business opportunity. Have this fantasy…
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin The Battle of Virden, also known as the Virden Mine Riot and Virden Massacre, was a labor union conflict and a racial conflict in central Illinois that occurred on October 12, 1898. After a United Mine Workers of America local struck…
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary…
A riot is the language of the unheard. – Martin Luther King, Jr. The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, midwifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of…
It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done. – Vincent Van Gogh Dawn. Take the dogs to the kennel. Bust out of house arrest. We headed for the first place anybody would think…