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The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen.
Author:
Sarah Smith
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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
Author:
Fritz Zwicky
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Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
Author:
Brock Yates
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In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
Author:
John Wycliffe
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Author:
Francis Wright
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Author:
Frances Wright
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Author:
Ron White
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Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
Author:
William Whewell
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Author:
Bob Weir
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
Author:
Vera Wang
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If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.
Author:
Rob Walton
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If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.
Author:
Rob Walton
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We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.
Author:
Jim Walton
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
Author:
David Wallace
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In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
Author:
Grete Waitz
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
Author:
Peter Utley
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Author:
Alan Turing
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Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Author:
Mao Tung
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
Author:
Ivanka Trump
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Author:
G. Trudeau
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As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.
Author:
Bill Toomey
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It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
Author:
Cheryl Tiegs
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The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
Author:
Dick Thornburgh
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Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
Author:
James Thomson
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Author:
William Temple
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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
Author:
Henry Taube
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The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Author:
Thomas Sydenham
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I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
Author:
David Soul
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Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Author:
L. Smith
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
Author:
Ed Smith
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You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
Author:
Courtney Smith
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
Author:
Red Skelton
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I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Author:
Peter Singer
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It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
Author:
George Sheehan
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
Author:
Hans Selye
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I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
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It's good to always do some sort of exercise.
Author:
Ashley Scott
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.
Author:
Roy Scheider
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The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Author:
Pierre Schaeffer
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
Author:
John Saul
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
Author:
Mark Rylance
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
Author:
Elihu Root
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Author:
Grantland Rice
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Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
Author:
Boyd Rice
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My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.
Author:
Della Reese
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The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
Author:
Della Reese
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I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
Author:
John Ransom
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The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
Author:
William Ramsay
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With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
Author:
Michael Polanyi
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Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Author:
Michael Polanyi
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Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Author:
Mary Pickford
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Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
Author:
John Phillips
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For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
Author:
Daniela Pestova
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The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Author:
Charles Peirce
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They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Author:
Major Owens
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Author:
Major Owens
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The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Author:
Robert Owen
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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Author:
Robert Owen
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
Author:
John Owen
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
Author:
Al Oerter
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Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Author:
John Newman
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
Author:
Bill Moyers
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
Author:
Nana Mouskouri
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Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
Author:
Viggo Mortensen
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
Author:
Akio Morita
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But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
Author:
James Miller
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Author:
John Mill
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I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.
Author:
Donald McKay
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Author:
W. Maugham
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
Author:
Walter Martin
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A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
Author:
Andrew Malcolm
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Author:
James Madison
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
Author:
Patrick MacGill
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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Author:
Henry Luce
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Author:
Konrad Lorenz
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Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Author:
Titus Livius
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Author:
Kenneth Livingstone
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Author:
Jack LaLanne
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So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
Author:
Jack LaLanne
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Author:
Jack LaLanne
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
Author:
Jack LaLanne
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I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
Author:
Leo Kottke
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The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
Author:
Heidi Klum
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You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
Author:
Grenville Kleiser
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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
Author:
Nancy Kerrigan
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
Author:
Fanny Kemble
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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
Author:
Fanny Kemble
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Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
Author:
John Keegan
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No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
Author:
Star Jones
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
Author:
E. Jones
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
Author:
Bruce Jenner
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Author:
Bruce Jenner
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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.
Author:
Rachel Hunter
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Author:
Claudio Hummes
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
Author:
Harlan Howard
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Author:
Horace
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Author:
Mark Hopkins
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A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
Author:
Henry Home
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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Author:
Hippocrates
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Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.
Author:
John Hewson
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A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
Author:
Mariel Hemingway
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I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.
Author:
Mariel Hemingway
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Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
Author:
Mariel Hemingway
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Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
Author:
John Hawley
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Author:
William Harrison
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To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Author:
Paul Harris
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Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
Author:
Lee Haney
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Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Author:
Lee Haney
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Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
Author:
Lee Haney
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When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.
Author:
Lee Haney
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Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.
Author:
Lee Haney
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We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Author:
Philip Hamerton
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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Author:
Raul Grijalva
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We were made to exercise. We feel better.
Author:
Bob Greene
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I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
Author:
Erin Gray
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I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
Author:
Cary Grant
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I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
Author:
Stone Gossard
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
Author:
William Godwin
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Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.
Author:
Trisha Goddard
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
Author:
Parris Glendening
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When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.
Author:
Tom Glazer
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So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
Author:
Paul Glaser
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
Author:
Joseph Glanvill
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Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
Author:
Vince Gill
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
Author:
Walter Gilbert
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Author:
Felix Frankfurter
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The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
Author:
Virginia Foxx
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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Author:
Henry Ford
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
Author:
B. Forbes
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
Author:
Dario Fo
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I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
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Peggy Fleming
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It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
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Joely Fisher
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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
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Bob Filner
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
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Marshall Field
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The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
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Cyril Falls
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The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
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Laurent Fabius
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
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John Erskine
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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Jacques Ellul
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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
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Havelock Ellis
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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
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Danny Elfman
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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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Tryon Edwards
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I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
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Adrian Edmondson
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Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
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Maureen Dowd
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I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
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Betty Dodson
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I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.
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Mike Ditka
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Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.
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Mike Ditka
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When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
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Mike Ditka
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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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Vin Diesel
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I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
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Chauncey Depew
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Taylor Dayne
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And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
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Ron Davies
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I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
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Ron Davies
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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
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John Darby
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After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.
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John Darby
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Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.
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Noel Coward
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Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
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Kenneth Cooper
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I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.
Author:
Kenneth Cooper
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Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
Author:
Kenneth Cooper
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There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
Author:
Kenneth Cooper
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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Frances Conroy
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If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
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Judy Collins
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A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
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Sasha Cohen
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Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Author:
Sasha Cohen
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I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
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Howard Coble
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Karl Clausewitz
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Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
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James Clarke
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I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.
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Guy Clark
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
Author:
Linford Christie
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But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
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Tommy Chong
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
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Lord Chesterfield
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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Author:
Cher
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I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
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Robert Casey
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Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.
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George Carman
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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
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Henry Carey
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To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.
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Henry Carey
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
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Kim Campbell
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When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
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Lindsey Buckingham
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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
Author:
Tammy Bruce
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A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
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Richard Branson
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All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Author:
Anna Brackett
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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Earl Blumenauer
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
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Alan Bleasdale
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
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Hugh Blair
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And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
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Julie Bishop
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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
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Vinoba Bhave
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Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
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Carol Bellamy
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Daniel Bell
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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Jacques Barzun
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
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Edmund Barton
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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
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William Banting
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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Albert Bandura
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Honore Balzac
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Author:
David Bailey
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
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Francis Bacon
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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
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John Audubon
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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Mary Ash
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
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Johann Arndt
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Aristophanes
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In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
Author:
William Ames
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
Author:
William Alger
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I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
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Kim Alexis
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Joseph Addison
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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John Adams
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If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
Author:
Joey Adams
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Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Author:
Paula Abdul
