"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind……" — Wilhelm von Humboldt

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• I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words… — Margaret Atwood
• If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always… — Roger Bannister
• Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry
• To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck
• If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. — Alan Bennett
• The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete. — Andrea Bocelli
• The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker
• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. — Edward de Bono
• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
• I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.… — Jo Brand
• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in… — Jacob Bronowski
• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls… — Bill Bryson

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