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

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"We were made to exercise. We feel better."

Bob Greene, American Journalist

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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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"Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery."

G. B. Trudeau, American Cartoonist

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"A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice."

Sasha Cohen, American Athlete

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"It's good to always do some sort of exercise."

Ashley Scott, American Actress

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"Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics."

Red Skelton, American Comedian

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"Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."

Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian

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"Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that."

Shannon Miller, American Athlete

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"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."

Alan Turing, English Mathematician

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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."

Brock Yates, American Editor

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

Spirit

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

Society

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

Man

"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

"The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief."

Trust

"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

"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

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

History

"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

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

Media