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Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.


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VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...
VIRGINIA WOOLF