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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

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Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

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Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

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For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

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Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

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RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

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