"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Body, Water

"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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Body, Consciousness, Imagination, Emotion

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Body, Mind, Nothing

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Body, Mind

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Body, Fact, Will

"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Body, Friend, Reliability, Trust

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Body,

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Body, Causes, Destruction

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

Body, Mind, Will

"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Body, Health, Neglect, Humor

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"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."

Necessity

"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

"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

"The body is not a reliable friend."

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."

"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

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"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object."

"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."

"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."

"All sports for all people."

"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."

"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."

"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement."

"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."

"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them."

"Sport must be accessible to working class youth."