#exercise

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all. ↗

— Star Jones

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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise. ↗

— William Shatner

#jew

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics. ↗

— Red Skelton

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