“One day his father said to him, 'Theodore, you have the brain but you haven't got the body. I'm giving you the tools to make your body. It's going to be hard drudgery and I want to know whether you think you have the determination to go through with it.'
With a flash of those white teeth, Theodore said 'I'll make my body.'”
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