Exerted Quotes
64 quotes by 62 authors
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on…
— Charles Babbage
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart…
— Immanuel Kant
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.
— Herophilos
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
— Samuel Johnson
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty…
— Benjamin F. Wade
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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
— Yanni
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We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our…
— Samuel Johnson
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The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a…
— Walter Russell
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the…
— Charles Lyell
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The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a…
— Svante Arrhenius
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First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good…
— George Washington
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There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,…
— Justus von Liebig
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The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.
— Mark Van Doren
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You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would…
— Angelina Grimke
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It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international…
— Margaret Thatcher
Who Wrote These Exerted Quotes
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