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«The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.»
«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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«There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning.»
Author: Orrin Hatch
| About:
Graduation
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«Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.»
«The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.»
«Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
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Manners
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«The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.»
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