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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Body, Man, Water, World

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Body, Exercise, Spirit, Stress

"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American Athlete

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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."

Poppy Z. Brite, American Author

Body, Right, School, Testing

"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

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Body, Information, Mind, State

"The body has a mind of its own."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Body, Mind

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

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Body, Health, Neglect, Humor

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Misery is a communicable disease."

Disease

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."

Time

"The body never lies."

Body

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Men

"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."

Art

"The only sin is mediocrity."

Mediocrity

"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."

Act

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."

Life

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

Men

"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."

Acceptance