#exercise

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#claim #exercised #governments #his #history

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise. ↗

— Gene Tunney

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In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#battling #cancer #exercise #helps #mentally

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american people #based #bringing #choice #congress

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#arm #arms #core #every #exercise

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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