Paul Dudley White quotes
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“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”
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“I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.”
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“Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.”
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“We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.”
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“I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.”
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“Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.”
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“Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.”
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“You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
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Source : Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
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