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John F. Kennedy Politician
Exercise

"The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right."

Inspirational Exercise Courage
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right."

Men Animal Exercise
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Exercise

"The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor."

Law Rights Exercise
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Joey Adams Comedian, Actor
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"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."

Exercise Bad Ass Fitness
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Hippocrates Physician
Exercise

"Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach."

People Exercise Opposites
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Mencius Philosopher
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"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil."

Heaven Exercise Office
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week."

Exercise Health Workout
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Exercise

"If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant."

Thinking Exercise Should Have
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Laurent Fabius Politician
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"The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport."

Country Technology Exercise
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Aristotle Philosopher
Exercise

"For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended."

Mean Exercise Drinking
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all."

Lying Exercise Should Have
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Exercise

"If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications."

Philosophy Stupid Exercise
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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment."

Children Exercise Color
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Plato Philosopher
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"There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play."

Children Teaching Exercise
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Exercise

"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live."

Joy Happiness Exercise
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us."

Giving Exercise Human Nature
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Alan Turing Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
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"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."

Two Exercise Intuition
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