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exercise thought-provoking limits
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors. C. S. Lewis
exercise guitar years
After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. Carrie Brownstein
exercise technology wish
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited. Carl Sagan
exercise mad old-friends
Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it. Bethenny Frankel
exercises helps
I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis. Raquel Welch
exercise night ems
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em. William Shakespeare
exercise high low might
I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet. Mike Williams
exercise blessing joy
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. Beilby Porteus
exercise financial increased rigor
We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward. Mark Sue
government
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
government wanna
I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em. Gallagher
government placed united
The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. Edward Snowden
government tells understand
What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. Elaine Stritch
government issue pension priority
The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy, Vicente Fox
government means pictures vietnam war
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
government
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. Daniel Webster
government opposition supported
We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations. Chris Matthews
government interests latter local peculiar represents system
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former. John C. Calhoun
justice welsh-actor
You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. Richard Burton
justice spheres charity
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
justice progress matter
Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment. Carrie Chapman Catt
justice support patriotism
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. Benjamin Rush
justice almighty-god persons
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists. Antonia Fraser
justice usual middle
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
justice people police
In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this? Antoine Fuqua
justice land turned
We have turned the 'Land of Lincoln' into the land of jackpot-justice.
justice time
Time is the justice that examines all offenders.