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  • I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. -- Simon van der Meer
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  • The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel. -- Donal Henahan
  • Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthermore, every boy had to use every piece of it during gymnasium class. -- Preston Sturges
  • A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. -- Mary Blakely
  • I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person. -- Tim Roth
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  • When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. -- Wolfgang Paul
  • I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!' -- Patrick Duffy
  • Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. -- Blaise Pascal
  • It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium -- Dick Trickle
  • We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. -- George Eliot
  • The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. -- Jimmy Breslin
  • Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know. -- T. D. Jakes
  • Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. -- Hannah More
  • The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next. -- Leroy van Dyke
  • Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for." -- Saint Augustine
  • Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats. -- David Letterman
  • I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern. -- Muhammad Ali
  • A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. -- Mary Blakely
  • The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. -- Jean Paul
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