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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot… — Joseph Addison
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Princess Marie Bonaparte
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off. — Tom Peters
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible… — Curt Schilling
Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start… — Ellen DeGeneres
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,… — Thomas Jefferson
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is… — Alexander Hamilton
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… — Thomas Paine
I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the… — Yousuf Karsh
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,… — Yousuf Karsh
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man! — Terry Pratchett
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination. — John Irving
You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive. — Ray Bradbury
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get… — Ray Bradbury
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is… — Philip K. Dick

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