"In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s."

-- Lois Capps

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“USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.37, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.”
“I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.”
“We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.”
“I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.”
“Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.”

Source : Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”
“By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated.”

Source : David Crystal (2009). “List of cartoons ;The Hype About Texting ;How Weird is Texting? ;What is Distinctive About it? ;Why do They do it? ;Who Texts? ;What do They Text About? ;How do Other Languages do it? ;Why all the Fuss? ;Glossary ;Appendix ;Index”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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