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"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."

"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

"I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well."
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"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."


"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."


"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."


"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."


"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."


"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."


"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."


"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
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