Activity Quotes
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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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We're Iran not dismantling anything. We are uninstalling some centrifuges and reconstructing the Arak reactor, modernizing it. . . . The remaining activities that we need undertake will not take more than several days, less than two weeks.
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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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Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
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Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.
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The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
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The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
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There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.
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The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.
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Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
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Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
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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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Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
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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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Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.
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Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
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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.
