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We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.


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ANDREW CARVER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES A lot of people knew who Eric was. You didn't go in Casey's and not know Eric.
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ISEED KHOURY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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PARVESH CHEENA We spend a lot of time together playing football and basketball and lifting weights all the time.
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BRUCE SMITH I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.
ALEXANDRE DE BETAK I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.
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MARK ZUPAN Just a great day. We accomplished a lot of things we never did before.
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KATELYN KEEFE He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,
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PARDIS SABETI We had done a lot on the faith that we were doing something positive for the community. But we did i...
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LI NA I did a lot of stupid things. If it was a book, it would be a bloody good read.
JOHN HAMILTON We spent a lot of time. I don't know how many hours but it was a lot of hours. It was a lot of work.
BRUCE HARRILL Mike got most of our points, but our other kids did a lot also.
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ANGELA SCHUSTER We have 300 patents now. We had to invent a lot of stuff to make it work.
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ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER