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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would be more perfect, impure matter would be thrown off, and new life and vigor would be experienced in every part of the body.

  Ellen G. White

  Heart, Exercise, Blood

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.132, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Age, Degrees, Conscious

  Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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• If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pain, Motivation

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• Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fall, Yield, Mind

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• When we want to infuse new ideas,
  to modify or better the habits and customs of a people,
  to breathe new vigor into its national traits,
  we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, People

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• A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system.
  The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy citizen of the world one must first prove himself to be a good Filipino.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Cities, Roots, People

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• In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

  James Henry Hammond

  Skills, Order, Civilization

  James Henry Hammond (1866). “Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina”, p.318

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• Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

  Alan Watts

  Truth, Lying, Heart

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.38, New World Library

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• The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Decide Upon, Important, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.20, Paladin Press

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• Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Fire, Lost Everything, Youth

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Commitment, Play, Impossible

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

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• The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.

  Lowell Thomas

  Fun, Secret, Activity

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• The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dream, Mean, Intelligent

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Animal, Circles

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.323

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• Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.

  Thomas Paine

  Passion, Heart, Men

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.104, Penguin

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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Poison

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Certain, Lasting

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• I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Bad Day, Passion

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  Edgard Varese

  Music, Dream, Mean

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

  William Morris

  Art, Ornaments, Restoration

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.233, Cambridge University Press

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• Your vigor for life appalls me.

  Robert Crumb

  "Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977". Book by Robert Crumb, 1998.

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• Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Environmental, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

  Saint Augustine

  May, Sin, Hours

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