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• There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor to put himself in question, to take care of himself, and to make his soul as beautiful and wise as possible.

  Pierre Hadot

  Beautiful, Wise, Soul

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 269), 2001.

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• Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Self, Sick

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• Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Rights, Law, Discipline

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• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Sitting

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, Wonder, Born

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

  Michael Rosen

  Commitment, Choices, Decision

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• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  Martin Seligman

  People, Joy, Feelings

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

  Sebastian Coe

  School, People, Support

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• A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

  Ludwig von Mises

  Idols, People, Mind

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.

  Lorrie Moore

  Inspiration, Writing, Dancing

  "Community life" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Majority Vote, Voting, Democracy

  "Democratic Sen. Stabenow On Health Care". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 4, 2010.

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• The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading "Exercises and Research Problems," with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Important, Together

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• No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Radio, Rooms, Hips

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Eye, Issues, Important

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• Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meditation, Mind, Body

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Futility

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• What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

  Charles Duhigg

  Numbers, Giving, Rewards

  "How to Form a Good Habit". bigthink.com.

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• For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

  Ken Ham

  Thinking, Skills, Helping

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• A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Men, Faculty

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• I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.

  Taylor York

  Ideas

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• I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Important, Too Much

  "Screenwriter Peter Morgan Exclusive Interview HEREAFTER; Plus a TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2010.

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• I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

  Francisco Costa

  Inspiration, Writing, Way

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• The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

  Pete Carroll

  Helping, Strikes, Persons

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• I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Weight, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.

  Conan O'Brien

  Worry, President, Vices

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