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“I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy you in a way look fit.”
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“What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?”
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“Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'”
Source : Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.
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“If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.”
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“In truth, how much time do any of us really have?”
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“The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly.”
Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
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“Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.”
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“I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.”
Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.254
