Quotes with exercise

Quotes 81 till 100 of 109.

  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Sir William Temple The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Edward Gibbon The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Thomas Jefferson The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bhagat Singh There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Al Oerter To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Adam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Karl von Bonstetten To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • B. C. Forbes Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
    Letter to Peter Carr, 19-08-1785
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Barbra Streisand We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Akio Morita We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
    Akio Morita
    Japanese businessman, founder of Sony (1921 - 1999)
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carla Hall When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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