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Kenny Smith Basketball Player
Exercise

""Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them)."

Thinking Philosophy Exercise
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Keri Russell Actress
Exercise

"I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being."

Exercise Pregnancy Workout
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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Exercise

"Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise."

Writing Exercise Theater
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Exercise

"There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication."

Self Exercise Power
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Exercise

"Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!"

Men Exercise Fear
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Herbert Simon Economist
Exercise

"All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority."

Actors Exercise Action
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Jazmin Carlin Swimmer
Exercise

"Everyone should get more involved in exercising, not just for the health benefits, but for the social side too. There are so many different aspects in your life where sport can help. Even if you only go to a class at a local pool, you'll feel the benefits."

Sports Class Exercise
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Exercise

"Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline."

Children Views Exercise
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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
Exercise

"I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels."

Running Exercise Cancer
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Jo Ann Davis Author
Exercise

"We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves."

Heart Strong Exercise
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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
Exercise

"It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant."

Evil Exercise Philosophical
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Exercise

"Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off."

Men Exercise Silence
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Exercise

"Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge."

Long Exercise Discovery
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John Donne Poet, Cleric
Exercise

"We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant."

Long Air Exercise
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