“If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.”

— Robertson Davies , book A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

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Robertson Davies 282

Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995

Clayton Williams (1931–2020) American businessman

March 26, 1990, at his ranch ([Texas Candidate's Comment About Rape Causes a Furor, The New York Times, Associated Press, March 26, 1990, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/26/us/texas-candidate-s-comment-about-rape-causes-a-furor.html]; [March 25, 1990, Williams' apologizes for comparing bad weather to rape, United Press International, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/25/Williams-apologizes-for-comparing-bad-weather-to-rape/2869638341200/]; [The New Republic, Five Other Politicians Who’ve Said Idiotic Things About Rape, Molly, Redden, August 19, 2012, https://newrepublic.com/article/106317/five-other-politicians-whove-said-idiotic-things-about-rape]; [Snopes, Did Republicans Actually Say These Things About Rape?, David, Mikkelson, February 27, 2014, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/personal-foul/])

“But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.”

Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”

Bobby Knight (1940–2023) American college basketball coach and former player

Knight's reply to interviewer Connie Chung's question. "There are times Bobby Knight can't do it his way—and what does he do then?" From an NBC television interview by Connie Chung on April 25, 1988 as reported in the May 09, 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067309/index.htm