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"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."
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"The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts."
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Personal Development

"Like chocolate, she craved sleep and it made her life brighter, but she could do without."
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Personal Development

"I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly."
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Personal Development

"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
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"We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem."
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"I'd like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor."
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"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
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"Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done."
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"The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there."
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
Progress

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
Virtue

"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."
Youth

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
Marriage

"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Affection

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
Education

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship

"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation

"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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