"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."

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"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The body has a mind of its own."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"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

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"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind."

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"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue."

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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

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"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."

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"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

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"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form."

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