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"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Weight

"Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Weight

"I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing."

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Ovid Poet
Weight

"A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."

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Jonah Hill Actor, Producer, Director
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"I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically."

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
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"Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place."

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"Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you."

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