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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."
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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
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"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."
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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."
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"Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body."
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"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."
Body
"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
Happiness
"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."
Necessity
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
Sports
"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."
Life
"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
Age
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
Life
"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement."
Improvement
"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."
People
"May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure."
Humanity
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