Excess Body Weight

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“There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)