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Your Occasional Stoic — Those In The Arena Are All That Matter, Those In The Stands Are None Of Our Concern.
Do not waste what remains of life in consideration about others, when it does not help the common good. Be sure you are neglecting other work if you busy yourself with what such a one is doing and why, with what he is saying, thinking, or scheming. Such things do nothing but divert you from…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Everything Dies Baby That’s A Fact
Hippocrates, who had healed many diseases, himself fell sick, and died. The Chaldeans foretold the fatal hours of multitudes, and afterwards fate carried them away. Alexander, Pompey, and Gaius Caesar, who so often razed whole cities, and cut off in battle so many myriads of horse and foot, at last departed from this life themselves.…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Contemplate The Fierce Jaws Of Beasts With No Less Delight Than The Works Of Sculptors Or Painters
Observe what grace and charm appear even in the accidents that accompany Nature’s work. Some parts of a loaf crack and burst in the baking; and this cracking, though in a manner contrary to the design of the baker, looks well and invites the appetite. Figs, too, gape when at their ripest, and in ripe…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Robert
Name: Robert Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 50 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5′ 11″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 150 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Marine Corps Tell us a little about the race. Reasonably good conditions. Mid-40’s to mid-50’s, sunny, single…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Jason
Name: Jason Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 46 Height (at the time of first BQ): 6’3″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 185 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Bayshore Tell us a little about the race. It was my first marathon and wasn’t aiming for a…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Eric Cogdill
Name: Eric Cogdill Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 30 Height (at the time of first BQ): 6′ 2″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 152 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Run for the Ranch – Springfield, MO Tell us a little about the race. It was…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Trevar H
Name: Trevar H. Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 30 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5′ 10″ Weight (at the time of first BQ): 140 (I think) At which marathon did you get your first BQ? CIM Tell us a little about the race. Pretty ideal conditions. It was a…
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Your Occasional Stoic — Have a Sense of Urgency … Because Understanding and Intelligence Often Leave Us Before We Die
Man must consider, not only that each day part of his life is spent, and that less and less remains to him, but also that, even if he were to live longer, it is very uncertain whether his intelligence will suffice as it has for the understanding his affairs, and for grasping that knowledge which…
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Your Occasional Stoic — The Duration of Man’s Life Is But An Instant
The duration of man’s life is but an instant; his substance is fleeting, his senses dull; the structure of his body corruptible; the soul but a vortex. We cannot reckon with fortune, or lay our account with fame. To put is shortly, the life of the body is but a river, and the life of…
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The Boston Qualifier Questionnaire — Steven W
Name: Steven W Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 30 Height (at the time of first BQ): 5’5 Weight (at the time of first BQ): 135 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? New York City Marathon Tell us a little about the race. I had a shit marathon 3…
Milo and the Calf 