Activity Quotes
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I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.
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Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.
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Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
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Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.
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The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.
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Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Regularly the police posted notices to alert us to some activity, previously considered normal, which had now become a crime. Going to a dance hall, attending the cinema, drinking a beer in a café—all became crimes for us Jews. And the worst crime of all, said Frau Fleschner, pointing to the notice, was Rassenschande, racial disgrace—specifically, sexual relations between Germans and Jews. You could go to jail for that, she said.
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Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.
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Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.
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The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.
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...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
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Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
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History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.
