Hippocrates
Physician
"Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food."
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Fitness
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Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."
Hippocrates
Physician
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
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"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being"
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"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
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"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."
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"Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree."
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"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."
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"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."
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"I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat."
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"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
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"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting"
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"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~"
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"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
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"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
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"He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician."
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"Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them."
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"The first wealth is health."
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"Exercise is labor without weariness."
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"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."
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"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
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"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."
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