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— Elizabeth Missing Sewell"A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it."
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You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.
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In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity."
— Erasmus Darwin
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