From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

-- Mark Helprin () American Novelist and Writer

AND I WOULD ADD TO THAT LIST IT IS WHAT ENABLES THE RUNNER TO PUSH THEMSELVES TO THE BRINK OF EXHAUSTION FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN A PERSONAL BEST.
YOU WHO STEP OUT THEIR ONE LAST TIME THIS WEEK FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO SEE IF YOU CAN DO JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN YOUR PREVIOUS BEST - YOU ARE BRAVE AND YOU HAVE HONOR.

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