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- Health is the vital principle of bliss,
- And exercise, of health.
JAMES THOMSON, The Castle of Indolence
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.
ANNA QUINDLEN, Living Out Loud
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
BARBARA EHRENREICH, The Worst Years of Our Lives
Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.
W.C. FIELDS, The Temperence Lecture
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Vanity Fair, Oct. 2007
Exercise raises body temperature and generates other forms of stress on cells throughout the body, causing them to increase their manufacture of certain heat shock proteins. Preliminary research suggests that these HSPs might contribute to the health benefits of exercise by mitigating damage inside cells and by alerting the immune system to boost overall immune responses.
PRAMOD K. SRIVASTAVA, Scientific American, Jul. 2008
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