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• Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Return, Reason

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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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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Genius, Intellectual Curiosity, Vigorous

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• ... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Army, Thinking

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• I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Heart, Blood

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

  G. H. Hardy

  Chess, Problem, Mathematics

  "A Mathematician's Apology".

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• The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

  Alva Myrdal

  Done, Facts, Influence

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• New Zealand’s nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.

  David Lange

  Military, War, Challenges

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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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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• Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Inspiration, Reading, Today

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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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• The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

  John Marshall

  Government, Principles, Granted

  John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.164

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• Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.

  John Aubrey

  Father, Boys, Men

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• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

  Edmund Burke

  Jobs, Office, Nominations

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1453, Delphi Classics

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• To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.

  Zhuangzi

  Taoism, Firsts, Steps

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• RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Republic, Sacred, Fables

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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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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• Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Yeast, Drains

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• The worst program in the world, if you believe in it 100%, is better than a great program that you don't believe in.

  Lynn Jones

  Believe, World, Program

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• Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Journey, Rest Of Your Life, Destination

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• Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

  Hippocrates

  Opposites, People, Want

  A Regimen for Health IV (transl. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann)

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