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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Written by W. Somerset Maugham
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Written by Konrad Lorenz
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Written by Joseph Addison
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.
Written by Joey Adams
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Written by Chauncey Depew
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Written by Robert A. Heinlein
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
Written by William Sloane Coffin
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
Written by Peter Utley
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
Written by Hans Selye
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Written by Laurence Olivier
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Written by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Written by Grantland Rice
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Written by Alan Bleasdale
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
Written by David Bailey
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Written by Horace
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Written by Marshall Field
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Written by Henry R. Luce
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Written by Leo Buscaglia
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Written by John Stuart Mill
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Written by Max de Pree
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
Written by Kim Alexis
It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.
Written by Cheryl Tiegs
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Written by Benjamin Disraeli
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Written by Donald Rumsfeld
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
Written by James Freeman Clarke

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