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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker
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"Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul."

Thinking Soul Exercise
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Sylvester Stallone Actor, Filmmaker
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"Boxing is a great way to vent. I don't know if there is a better way, I think for women too. There is something so primal about it and it's the best exercise in the world, even if you don't ever get in the ring."

Thinking Exercise Boxing
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Russell Baker Writer
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"A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film."

Writing Father Exercise
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"It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint."

Character Exercise Tough
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"Oh yes as a matter of fact it's quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life."

Past Memories Exercise
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Kadmi Cohen Artist
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"The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness."

Men Two Exercise
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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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."

Imagination Exercise Wonder
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"As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership."

Home Hands Exercise
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control."

Lying Women Exercise
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old."

Men Exercise Tests
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Laozi Philosopher
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"Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard."

Winning Space Exercise
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Lara Stone Model
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"I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!" and this and that. It's all people would talk about - how I'm not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn't really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit."

People Crazy Exercise
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise."

Want Exercise Recipes
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Ziggy Marley Musician
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"I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine."

Running Exercise Stress
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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment."

Kids Parent Exercise
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true."

Believe Dream Exercise
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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations."

Night Exercise Funeral
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