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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall."

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Justin Cole Actor
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"I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design."

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Homer Poet
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"Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything.""

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again."

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