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Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life -- Haruki Murakami
Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality. -- Haruki Murakami
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -- Booker T. Washington
I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much. -- Janeane Garofalo
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic. -- Michel Faber
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. -- Zach Wamp
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there. -- Wilson Greatbatch
Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters. -- Ted Sarandos
I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail. -- Andie MacDowell
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit. -- Wassily Kandinsky
I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme. -- Nicholas Royle
Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force. -- Ian Bogost
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for. -- William Carey
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation. -- Dolores LaChapelle
In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen. -- Philippa Gregory
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. -- William Cowper
With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties. -- Leonard Peltier
The happier I am, the better my skin is. Any woman knows when they are over exerting themselves, whether it is emotionally or physically, you can see it on your face. -- Kate Hudson
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder, -- Randy Pausch
Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence? -- Charles Grandison Finney
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume. -- Margaret Halsey
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man? -- Marcus Aurelius

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