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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
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. -- Swami Vivekananda
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. -- Simon van der Meer
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
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
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
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
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
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
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home. -- Joseph Pilates
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
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
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have. -- Robert Hass
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like. -- Peter Abelard
Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium. -- Mary Blakely
I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny. -- Megan McCafferty

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