Physical culture is a health and strength training movement that originated during the 19th century.
During the mid-late 20th century, physical culture has become a largely outmoded concept in most English-speaking countries, and exercise now occurs in the context of physical education and fitness training.
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Famous quotes containing the words physical and/or culture:
“For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer’s gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
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—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)