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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin		Monday Sep 21, 2026
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About Sir Roger Bannister

	Sir Roger Bannister
	(1929- ) British athlete, first mile under 4 min, clocking 3 59.4 at Oxford, England, 1954.

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No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

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