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“Fielding’s research group suggests that rapid weight lifting as opposed to the slow mode of traditional lifting may help maintain fast-twitch muscle power with age.”
― The Editors of Men's Health, Your Best Body at 40+: The 4-Week Plan to Get Back in Shape--and Stay Fit Forever!

“At the grocery store, kale, tomatoes and berries won’t have a single label touting their nutritional benefits,” says Block, “but that’s only because fresh produce doesn’t have much of a marketing department.”
― The Editors of Men's Health, Your Best Body at 40+: The 4-Week Plan to Get Back in Shape--and Stay Fit Forever!

“Well, I’m sorry to have to tell you, sir, that your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It