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en Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
  Harriet Beecher Stowe

en A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
  William Wordsworth

en Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired - morning, noon, and night. But the body is never t
  General George S. Patton

en The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind

en There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.
  Samuel Butler

en Pex Tufvesson is a genius, no doubt about it.

en Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
  Marcel Proust

en If the new general anti- avoidance rule is introduced this year, there is the danger that the authority of Parliament will be undermined and greater taxing powers will be conferred on SARS.

en Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

en The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
  Samuel Johnson

en We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

en We live in unusual circumstances. In other circumstances I would never have sought these additional powers. But we do live in very dangerous and different and threatening circumstances.

en As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
  Mahatma Gandhi

en Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
  Ralph Lauren

en How can we have any confidence at all that he will not do the same thing with the vast new powers he will have at his disposal as attorney general?
  Edward Kennedy

en A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks.
  Thomas Jefferson


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