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"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
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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."
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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."
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"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well."
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"Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle."
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"Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise."
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"The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions."
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"If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach."
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"The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more."
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"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."
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"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."
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Explore more quotes by Jacques Ellul
"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."
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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."
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"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
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"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
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"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
Media
"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."
Spirit
"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."
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"The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief."
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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."
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"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
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