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Quick-Step must have known his history, but when it went public they acted shocked and fired him—punishment for breaking the code of silence. Forced to retire, Levi puts on an annual “Gran Fondo” in Santa Rosa, California, where thousands
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“Bodybuilding changed me entirely. I think I would be a different person now if I’d never trained, if I’d just worked somewhere. It gave me confidence and pride and an unlimited positive attitude. I can apply my success to everything. One thing is that people listen much more to bigger guys; the bigger you are and the more impressive you look physically, the more people listen and the better you can sell yourself or anything else. In business school I saw a study of how many big companies in America hire salesmen above a certain height and weight. Because it has been proved that big people are more impressive salespeople. They’re more convincing. It’s true. I found it out myself, that I can persuade people easier than a small person can.”
― Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
― Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“they sleep, they can be startled, even there in the soothing of the heart, like waves on the shore around them.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“There I sit in the chair, with the lights off, in my red dress, hooked and buttoned. You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
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“But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from. There’s”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
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