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Barbara Ehrenreich : Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. # Exercise

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Friedrich Nietzsche : " To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. " # Exercise

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Vaclav Havel : " A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. " # Exercise

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Walter Lippmann : " The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. " # Exercise

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P J O Rourke : " Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But -- like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family -- it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And -- since women are a majority of the population -- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson. " # Exercise

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Waiter Rant weblog Waiter Rant : " The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy. " # Exercise

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Paul Keating : " This is the sort of little-boy, stamp your foot stuff which comes from a financial yuppie when you shoe him into parliament. " # Exercise

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Samuel Johnson : " Exercise is labor without weariness. " # Exercise

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Source Unknown : " Exercise: you don't have time not to. " # Exercise

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Chauncey Depew : " I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. " # Exercise

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Mark Twain : " I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. " # Exercise

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all." # Effort # Success # Business

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous." # Murder # Cleverness # History and Historians

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?" # World # Age and Aging # Love

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?" # Language # Speakers and Speaking # Fear

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere." # Drugs # Growth # Life and Living

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies." # Pregnancy # Smoking # Love

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups." # Men and Women # Conversation # Freedom

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia." # Exercise

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally -- as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing -- if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops." # Famine # Relationships # Food and Eating

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Barbara Ehrenreich: " The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang." # Feminism # Pornography # Men and Women

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