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  • John F. Kennedy 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.
    Source: Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Sir John Harvey Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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  • Aldous Huxley Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carice van Houten Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Donne Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is not a luxury.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Emily Dickinson Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • John Keats Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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