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According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently. ↗

— Jack Kilby

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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

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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

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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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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

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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

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