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• In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity."

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Years, Grandfather

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• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

  Mary Howitt

  Children, Father, Heart

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• Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Doubt, Information, Temples

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, Men, Democracy

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.528, Bantam Classics

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• In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.98, University of Chicago Press

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• Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Character, Men, Vision

  William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.3

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• Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Giving, Competition

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Laughter, Age, Too Much

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• The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Art, Honor, Enemy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

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• A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Character, Men, Wife

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Talking, Doe, Want

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

  Joanna Baillie

  Women, Courageous, Danger

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709

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• customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

  Sarah Siddons

  Cheer, Order, Voice

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• Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Morning, Lying

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• The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

  Henry George

  Men, Law, Political

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

  John Ruskin

  Expression, Play, Mind

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Understanding, Way

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

  Aurangzeb

  Brother, Congratulations, Writing

  "Later Mughals: Volume II: 1719-1739". Book by William Irvine, 1922.

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• In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, War, Risk

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The Complete War Memoirs”

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• Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.

  George Dantzig

  Military, War, Differences

  George Dantzig (2016). “Linear Programming and Extensions”, p.1, Princeton University Press

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• The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Men, Emotional

  "XXVIII : The Inner Light of Torah in the Land of Israel". Translation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, p. 208,

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• To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

  Jane Porter

  Inspirational, Independent, Support

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• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Home, Fate

  1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

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• The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

  George Eliot

  Success, Winning, Sweetest

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• War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Eye, Men

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