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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so… — Chuck Palahniuk
Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth,… — Henry Cloud
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly… — Fred Rogers
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and… — J R Ward
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a… — D. H. Lawrence
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. — Edward Gibbon
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If… — Patrick Henry
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must… — Mortimer Adler
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because… — George Bernard Shaw
self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion... — W. Somerset Maugham
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving… — Terence McKenna
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to… — William Wilberforce
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up… — John Stuart Mill
The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or… — John Stuart Mill
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent… — A. J. Jacobs

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