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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Greatness, Mind, Ambitious

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Reading, Television Watching, Leader

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• A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

  Richard Schickel

  Character, Fate, Fiction

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

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• He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

  Max Muller

  Faults, Quiet, Apparel

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.39, Routledge

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• If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage

  Kofi Annan

  Acceptance, Thinking, Saws

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• Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.

  Yves Klein

  Spiritual, Discovery, Space

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• The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.

  Claude Mandil

  Country, Needs, Maintenance

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• Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

  Roy Baumeister

  Educational, Pregnancy, School

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• The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Skills, Judgement

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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.

  Anna Brackett

  Spring, Real, Effort

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• The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Power, Agony, Arrogance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.496, Best Books on

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• Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Feet, Wonderful

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• When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Magic, Well Being

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• Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Creative, Use

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Prayer, Educational

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford (1979). “The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v”

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• Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

  Maya Lin

  Competition, Good Exercise

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• Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

  Bob Schwartz

  Health, Wellness, Problem

  Bob Schwartz (1982). “Diets Don't Work”

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• There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Law

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.69, Chartwell

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• You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.

  Will Rogers

  Healing, Brain, Like You

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• My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

  Brigham Young

  Tired, Mind, Body

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

  Charles Colson

  Political, Culture, Moral

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government”, p.273, Zondervan

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• The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Use, Intense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• When you look at women today, many take very good care of themselves - they exercise, they eat well, they achieve so much in their jobs. I think they feel good, they feel beautiful, and I believe they want to show their bodies.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Beautiful, Jobs, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Writing, Insignificant Things, Say Anything

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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