#exercised

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#company #crowd #digestion #even #exercised

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dark #exercised #gave #himself #his

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. ↗

— Tony Snow

#best #exercised #issues #learn #people

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ↗

— William Proxmire

#check #cloak #dangerous #doubly #especially

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet. ↗

— Liv Tyler

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#exercised #instrument #man #men #nature

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it. ↗

— David Ricardo

#commodities #commodity #diminution #every #exchangeable

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. ↗

— Brit Hume

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