Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

Joseph Pilates

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Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

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Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

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I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

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The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

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Civilization impairs physical fitness. by Joseph Pilates

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

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A man is as young as his spinal column. by Joseph Pilates

A man is as young as his spinal column.

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Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

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Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred ex... by Joseph Pilates

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

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Daily, from sunrise to sunset, the radio, newspapers and magazines broadcast to the world how to maintain health, how to regain health... the conflicting information, expressive of the different opinions of these various health authorities, has proved to be nothing less than confusion.

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I'm fifty years ahead of my time. by Joseph Pilates

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

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A man is as old as his spine is flexible! by Joseph Pilates

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

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Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.

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