"When men do not run they are likely……" — Paul Shepard
"When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease."
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12 Quotes by Paul Shepard
Paul Shepard has 12 quotes on this site.
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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions,…
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Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse…
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Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill…
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Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild…
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The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
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All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology -…
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To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions…
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The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.
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Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
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There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize…
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More Chronic Quotes
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one of 218 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
— Kris Carr
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking…
— Loni Anderson
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A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of…
— Esther Hicks
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Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover…
— Eric Hoffer
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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
— Thomas Sydenham
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Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do,…
— George H. Smith
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Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.
— Faye Wattleton
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes…
— Seneca the Younger
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