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• Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

  John P. Kotter

  Views, Practice, Psychology

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• The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.

  Price Pritchett

  Excellence, Mediocrity, Way

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• It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

  Mark Rylance

  Play, Shakespeare Play, Intuitive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Limits, Constitution

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• It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.

  Robert Higgs

  Sound, Violence, Aids

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• In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Mean, Simple

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• Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Facts

  "The Wisdom of the Desert".

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• If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.

  Ronald L. Buckwalter

  Government, Law, Land

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• Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

  Laozi

  Winning, Space, Taoism

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• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Past

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

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• The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.

  Peter O'Sullevan

  Gambling, Office, Walking

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• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Animal, Psychology, May

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• In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Science, Hands

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• Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Destiny, Law, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.24, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Purpose

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• When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

  John Paul Stevens

  Pigs, Justice, Doe

  "Stevens carved liberal legacy on high court". www.seattletimes.com. April 10, 2010.

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• "Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player." "In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I've always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices."

  Reggie Rivers

  Sports, Football, Strong

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• A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Chess, Problem, Mathematics

  "A Mathematician's Apology".

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• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  Barney Chavous

  Sports, Football, Sacrifice

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• Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.

  Paul Coleridge

  Divorce, Tests, Driving

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• Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Evil, Decision

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 8,

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• Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Nature, Practice

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

  Michael Polanyi

  Responsibility, Principles, Social

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• PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Intellectual, Gentle, Pastime

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

  John Heilpern

  Cat, Thinking, Jumping

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