Activities Quotes
888 quotes by 732 authors
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If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it…
— Mancur Olson
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Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape…
— Josei Toda
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The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.
— Melinda Blau
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Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
— Bertrand Russell
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The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.…
— Stephen Covey
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Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and…
— Gayle Rubin
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I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.
— Sammy Wilson
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Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying…
— Paul Hawken
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It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds,…
— Diane Watson
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also…
— Patrick Geddes
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The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its…
— Virginia Henderson
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Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities…
— Richardson Wright
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Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . .…
— Albert Schweitzer
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
— Zhuangzi
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Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or…
— Charles Lindbergh
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... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first…
— Donald Knuth
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