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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

George A. Sheehan

Fitness Wishes Done Exercise

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

James Prescott Joule

God Universe Will Order

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Abraham Lincoln

Constitution Only Anything Interfere

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Abraham Lincoln

Rest Opinion Some Policy

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Abraham Lincoln

Government Support Successful Through

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Good You Believe Friends

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens

Girl Discipline Never Own

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Experience Religion Morality Reason

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Bertrand Russell

Men Women Never Teeth

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Albert Schweitzer

Simple Truth Long Truth Is

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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

Me People Government Sword

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Champion Always Rock Roll

By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

Car Today Roads End

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Basketball Always Mental Importance

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.

Money Power World Revolution

If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.

World Beginning Possible American

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone

Success Try Trying Success Is Who

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

Situation Political Solution Military

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life Peace World Conflict

Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.

Family Me Character Will

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

Myself Grow See Student

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Success Courage You Struggle

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Whatever Force Through Needs

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie Violence Only Concealed

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

Walter Cronkite

Great Pride Reputation Literature

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

Relationship Mother Parents World

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