"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."

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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem."

Stone Gossard, American Musician

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"Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last."

Maureen Dowd, American Journalist

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"As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed."

James Madison, American President

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"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, Australian Philosopher

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"He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles."

Francis Wright, Scottish Activist

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"When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina."

Lee Haney, American Athlete

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"They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option."

Joe Pantoliano, American Actor

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"Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation."

Noel Coward, English Playwright

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"I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

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"In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act."

Man

"Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible."

History

"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."

Spirit

"All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis."

Nature

"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."

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"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."

Technology

"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."

Work

"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."

Time

"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."

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"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment."

Environment