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It means a lot to Kenya, running under two hours, together we can make a beautiful world.

— Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge (2019)

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100 percent of me is nothing compared to one percent of the whole team.

Eliud Kipchoge (2019)

Only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you are undisciplined you are a slave to your moods, you are a slave to your passions.

Eliud Kipchoge (2018)

I have tried, I am the first man to run (full marathon) under two hours to inspire many people, to tell people no human is limited.

Eliud Kipchoge (2019)

As you know, I need to compete in the highest level before I leave the sport. But I want to leave a footprint, the right values, the right spirit, and the right movement.

Eliud Kipchoge (2025)

It has taken 65 years (after Roger Bannister) for a human being to make history in sport. I am the happiest man to run under two hours. I am here to inspire everyone that it can be done.

Eliud Kipchoge (2019)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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