Exercise Quotes - Page 27

• Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Yoga, Levels

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• Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.

  Lucy Parsons

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.

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• Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.

  Gardiner Spring

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Gardiner Spring (1819). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.96

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• Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Vivekananda, Genuine, Audience

  Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj; "Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen: Testimonies in Memoriam" compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad, 1934.

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• The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, School, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.55

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• When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

  Mencius

  Office, Heaven, Grace

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• Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.

  Tara Parker-Pope

  Virginia, Next, Students

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• How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Men, Imagination

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1889). “The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Robert G. Ingersoll, Frederic R. Coudert, Stewart L. Woodford, Before the Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House”

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• Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control.

  George Combe

  Fashion, Real, Elements

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• It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

  Linus Torvalds

  Intellectual, Masturbation, Call Me

  "Linus Torvalds: Geek of the Week" by Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 17, 2008.

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• The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

  Mark Frost

  Firsts, Stomach, Prerequisites

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

  Philip Berrigan

  Christian, Real, Mean

  "Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire". Book by Philip Berrigan, p. 204, 1996.

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• I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.

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• Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

  Randal Marlin

  Democratic Ideals, Lips, Needs

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.13, Broadview Press

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Evil, Car

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• Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

  Dave Kopel

  Country, Lying, Fighting

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• I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.

  David Niu

  Running, Nice, Stress

  "Entrepreneurs Share 8 Tips To Boost Productivity During Holiday Chaos" by Sujan Patel, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

  Andrew Klavan

  Dream, People, Needs

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• Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

  George Horne

  Meditation, Mind, Kind

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• Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Weather, Two

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• The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Practice

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• Scientists say they're getting closer to developing a pill to replace exercising. Americans heard this and said that it better come in cool ranch flavor.

  Conan O'Brien

  Flavor, Pills, Scientist

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• Democratic Senator Harry Reid is expected to make a full recovery after he was exercising with a resistance band that snapped, causing him to fall. The good news is he's fine. The bad news is there's no video of it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Fall, Recovery, Video

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• Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.

  Elf Sternberg

  Abuse, Lost

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• I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Pain, Injury, Temper

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2326, Delphi Classics

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