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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Two, Feelings, Joints

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• If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

  James Patterson

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Character, Blood, Transition

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Definitions, Madness

  "Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos". Book by Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté (p. 142), 1986.

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Education, Real, Learning

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Language, Clear

  Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann (1964). “Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

  Ezra Pound

  Literature, Damn, Known

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.111, New Directions Publishing

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• In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

  Ezra Pound

  Inability, Literature, Economic

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

  Ezra Pound

  Pregnancy, Eye, Squares

  "Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts".

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• I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

  Chris Pratt

  Cutting, Years, Ten

  "The Very Busy Chris Pratt on Preparing for Moneyball, Goofing in What's Your Number? and Ten Year". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. August 29, 2011.

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• There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

  Anna Quindlen

  Beauty, Thinking, Joy

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.173, Random House

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• I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.

  Nicole Richie

  Mind

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• I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

  Kelly Rowland

  Looks, Gains, I Love Food

  "Kelly Rowland’s Abs Steal The Spotlight On Shape Magazine Cover". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

  Curt Schilling

  Laptops

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• To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Taken, Florida, Environmental

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• My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Mind, Losing

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• I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

  Jill Scott

  Agency, Play, Mma

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

  Richard Simmons

  Cake, Fudge, Way

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• I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Trying, Needs

  "Live From..." with Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!

  Richard Simmons

  Workout, Work Out, Fit

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

  Russell Simmons

  Feel Better, Healthy, Looks

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• For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Educational, Giving, Debt

  "Iain Duncan Smith to unveil new ways of measuring child poverty" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

  Rod Stewart

  Men, Velvet, Minutes

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