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• Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Vegetables, Levels

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• I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

  Chauncey Depew

  Fitness, Health, Acting

  "Four Talks for Bibliophiles" by George Allen, (p. 70), 1958.

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• I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

  Mark Twain

  Fitness, Humorous, Health

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Let each man exercise the art he knows.

  Aristophanes

  Strength, Art, Life Changing

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes”

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• If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Motivational, Fitness, Men

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• Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

  Sasha Cohen

  Motivational, Dream, Hard Work

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• I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Trust, Spring, Intelligent

  'Vivian Grey' (1826) bk. 6, ch. 7

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• Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Sex, Dating

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• It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Morning, Good Day, Science

  On Aggression ch. 2 (1966)

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• I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

  Stone Gossard

  Fitness, Self Esteem, Cancer

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• Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Lakes, Ipods

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.55, PublicAffairs

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• I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it as having nothing to do with health. I see most exercises based on looking good. They actually make you less healthy. You overdevelop the obvious muscles. You take drugs to enhance that. You ignore the rest, and you become more out of balance.

  Bryan Kest

  Drug, Healthy, Balance

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Our Society, Slim, Potatoes

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• Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Religion, Shapes

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• The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Opportunity, Work Out, Important

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.103, Penguin

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• Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise.

  Eva Longoria

  Energy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Powerful, Writing, Creativity

  "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (p. 164), 1938.

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• Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

  Jack LaLanne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Jack LaLanne Dies: Who the Fitness Guru Really Was" by John Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Fitness, Discipline, Suffering

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.50

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

  Joseph Murphy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

  Livy

  May, Way, Difficulty

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