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• Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.

  Andrew Revkin

  Summer, Balance, May

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• Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about 'saving the planet' is an effective way to show their 'caring' for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Real, Caring, Talking

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• Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

  Anders Borg

  Moving, Europe, Issues

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• Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

  Julia Gillard

  Real, Energy, Climate

  "Australian prime minister lays out climate-change plan". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

  Margaret George

  Archery, Medicine, Boredom

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• While the Congress came out with Federal Investigation Agency Bill after Mumbai attacks, the BJP had come out with POTA. However, the important aspect is how to prevent such terror activities from taking place and there is no thinking on this by either of the two parties

  Sitaram Yechury

  Party, Thinking, Agency

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• Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Grief, Despair

  "Thousands join pope on Youth Day", www.cnn.com. August 21, 2005.

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• Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Technique, Rooms

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• The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

  Patrick Murray

  Leisure Activities, Computer, Internet

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• ... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

  Aristotle

  Men, Perfect, Soul

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• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  Aristotle

  Ethics, Contemplation, Form

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• All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

  Steven Morrissey

  Girl, Memorable, Boys

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• The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Men, Essentials

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• Do you check it when you travel, do you check it when you're just at home? They'd be able to tell something called your 'pattern of life.' When are you doing these kind of activities? When do you wake up? When do you go to sleep? What other phones are around you when you wake up and go to sleep? Are you with someone who's not your wife?

  Edward Snowden

  Sleep, Home, Memorable

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• These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Government, Individual

  "Special Report: Inside the Mind of Edward Snowden" with Brian Williams, www.archives.nbclearn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

  Arie de Geus

  Change, Organization, Focus

  Arie de Geus (2002). “The Living Company”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

  Bill Toomey

  Healing, Journey, Realizing

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• Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

  John Green

  Twilight, Writing, People

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• Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

  Jeff Bollow

  Writing, Thinking, Lessons

  Jeff Bollow (2004). “Writing FAST: How to Write Anything with Lightning Speed”, p.15, Embryo Films

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• Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Book, Writing, Doubt

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• The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings, and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to senses tried by the present day kaleidoscope of events.

  Morris Kline

  Teaching, Math, Challenges

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.470, Oxford University Press

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• Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Photography, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Intellectual, Chess, Pleasure

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• It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Feelings, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Different, Form

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