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“Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election”
Walt Whitman
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.”
William Godwin
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order”
John Quincy Adams
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens”
“To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable”
Oscar Wilde
“It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.”
Epictetus
“He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.”
Sun Tzu
