"Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap."
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"Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things."
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"I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong."
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"You have to have a patience for exercise."
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"What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in."
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"We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty."
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"I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into."
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"There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it."
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"I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding."
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"If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow."
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"They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options."
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"When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’"
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"The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives."
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"Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known."
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"If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness."
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"Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?"
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"Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest."
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"The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention."
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"In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent."
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"Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised."
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