Welcome to my blog. My name is Steve Giardina. I consider myself to be a student of the philosophy of Objectivism, and these are my many thoughts. Feel free to leave comments, as well as your opinions.
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours." Ayn Rand
7/27/2003
Lance Armstrong, cyclist, recently won his fifth straight Tour De France.
PARIS –– Sipping champagne to celebrate, Lance Armstrong won his hardest but sweetest Tour de France title Sunday — a record-tying fifth straight victory that places him alongside the greatest cyclists ever.
The 31-year-old cancer survivor and Spanish great Miguel Indurain are now the only two riders to win the sport’s most grueling and prestigious race five times in a row — a record Armstrong plans to break next year.
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The indefatigable Armstrong overcame illness, crashes, dehydration, team and equipment problems and uncharacteristic bad days during the 23-day, 2,125-mile clockwise slog around France to win by his smallest margin — 61 seconds over five-time runner-up Jan Ullrich of Germany.
Congrats on the victory!
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