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• In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Power, Police, Hemisphere

  Annual Message to Congress, 6 Dec. 1904. Known as the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine

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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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• 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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• A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

  Matthew Lillard

  Acting, Tests, Way

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Voting, Faithful

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.

  Dirk Benedict

  Art, Greatness, Practice

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• Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

  Henry James

  Art, Flying, Faces

  1884 'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1988).

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• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Vanity, Self, Seductive

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• Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She “taught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: ‘Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.’

  Eliza R. Snow

  Inspiration, Humility, Responsibility

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• It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Reading, Writing

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• More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Character, Men, Self

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Opportunity, Fire

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Character, Understanding

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.393, Delphi Classics

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• He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Light, Opponents

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. There’s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no exercise regimen that can compare with the power of your thoughts and beliefs. That’s the very first place you need to look when anything goes wrong with your body.

  Christiane Northrup

  Cells, Medicine, Looks

  Dr. Christiane Northrup (2015). “Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

  Ben Jonson

  Writing, Men, Style

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?

  James Madison

  Country, Communication, Intelligent

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.574

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• Whoever is willing to enter the magic path should regard it as his sacred duty to practice regular exercises. He ought to be kind, generous and tolerant with his fellow men, but relentless and hard with himself. Only such behavior will be followed by success in magic.

  Franz Bardon

  Men, Practice, Magic

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• If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Kindness, Remembrance, Ghost

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• Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.

  David Gelernter

  Cutting, Engineering, Done

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

  Michael Richards

  Teacher, Rocks, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling... the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through.

  Bridget Riley

  Two, Mind, Lines

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