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“Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.”
Michael J. Gelb
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”
Mark Twain
“Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.”
G. B. Trudeau
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”
Joan Rivers
“Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.”
Henry Ford
“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.”
W. C. Fields