Relays Quotes - Page 3

• The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

  Cathy Freeman

  Motivational, Meaningful, Athlete

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• Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.

  Khoi Vinh

  Strong, Communication, Expression

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

  Edward Snowden

  Numbers, Typical, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . .

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Race, Generations

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• The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

  Lou Boudreau

  Running, Moving, Athlete

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

  Ana Castillo

  People, Ears, Waste

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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• We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe

  Kelley Armstrong

  Gun, Chloe, Liz

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.373, Penguin Group

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• The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

  Konrad Zuse

  Night, Zurich, Interesting

  "The First Computers: History and Architectures". Book by Ra L Rojas, p. 270, 2002.

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• Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her? -Queen Sorcha

  Melissa Marr

  Queens, Dragons, Tasks

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• The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

  Julian Castro

  Dream, Marathon, Finish Line

  "The Things Julian Castro Can Say" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.

  LeBron James

  Track, Able, Fields

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• I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

  Carl Lewis

  Want, Chance, Intention

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