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• Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Freedom, Pride

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• So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

  Erving Goffman

  Taken, Mean, Trials

  Erving Goffman (1981). “Forms of Talk”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.

  John Marshall

  Law, Judging, Giving

  Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. (9 Wheaton) 738, 866, 1824.

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• I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Order, People

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• I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized, as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

  Plato

  Mind, Body, Joints

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• Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Liberty, May

  "Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed" by Herbert Spencer, (Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 3), 1851.

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• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Black, Tea

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Children, Judging, Adults

  "Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (Freud: Within and Beyond Culture)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1965.

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• The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Integrity, Law

  John Calvin (1985). “On God and Political Duty: Calvin”, Prentice Hall

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• I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Permit, Appeals

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.25, Vintage

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• Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

  Michel Foucault

  Power, Groups, That One Person

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.34, MIT Press

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• To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

  Jean Chretien

  Frank

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.3, Vintage Canada

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• I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.

  Meryl Streep

  Yale, Voice, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Skins, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  Martin Luther (2002). “Commentary on Galatians, Luther”, p.158, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.

  Juan Gris

  Mind, Doe, Purpose

  "On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.

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• There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Lying, Degrees, Judgment

  "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 1, p. 10; As quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1698.

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• Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Giving, Political, Foundation

  "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1962.

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• The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

  Stephen Harper

  Unique, Political, Important

  "The New North Strong and Free". Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper, May 5, 2003.

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• The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Goal, Political, Nihilism

  "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror". Book by Michael Ignatieff, April 2004.

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• The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Free Opinion, Practice

  Alan Keyes' Remarks at the Alabama Republican Assemblies Luncheon, www.keyesarchives.com. April 29, 2000.

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• We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.

  Jack LaLanne

  School, Kids, Tired

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

  Jack LaLanne

  Keys, Long, People

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