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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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• 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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• This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson; it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the scholars.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Taken, Biblical

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• We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

  Eric Jensen

  Cells, Brain, Growth

  Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.3, ASCD

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• The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Judgement, Would Be

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Pride, Impossible

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.365, Routledge

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• It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

  Hannah More

  Meditation, Return, Attention

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 406, 1895.

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• In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

  Anton Chekhov

  Night, Order, Needs

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother N.P. Chekhov, March 1886.

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• I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.

  Conrad Aiken

  Mean, Writing, Years

  "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.

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• There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Years

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Age, Joyfulness

  Sir Philip Sidney (1929). “AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE”, p.100, CUP Archive

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Past, Race, Unity

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

  John Ralston Saul

  Obstacles

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul. Chapter "Triumph of the Will", 1994.

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• The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.

  Hermann Goring

  Agreement, People, Goering

  Statement on March 18, 1946 during Cross Examination. "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Volume 9, 1947.

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• Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

  Norman Doidge

  Use It Or Lose It, Long, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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• When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Height, Crisis

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Philosophy, Spirit

  "Hegel: A Reinterpretation". Book by W. Kaufmann, 1966.

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• To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them. A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work. It can be accomplished only piecemeal, a step at a time.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Responsibility, Intelligent

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

  Edith Wharton

  Errands, Destruction, Function

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Tales of Men and Ghosts: American Literature”, p.141, VM eBooks

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• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, Justice

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. "I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate.

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Heart, Years

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• In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Self, Views

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• Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.

  Scott McNealy

  Rights, Intellectual, Buying

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• Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.

  George Washington

  Regret, Men, Political Opinions

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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