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• To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

  Martha Beck

  Joyful, Whole

  "Oprah’s Life Coach on Achieving Your Goals" by Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  Gary Becker

  Marriage, Children, Fighting

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• A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Air, Rose

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• If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

  Alan Bennett

  Flower, Thinking, Squash

  Alan Bennett (2010). “The Complete Talking Heads”, p.56, Macmillan

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• We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Way, Needs

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• Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Husband, Real, Mean

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Order, Wish, Should

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• I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

  Rachel Blanchard

  Fitness, Weight Loss, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Sports, Cycling, Leisure Activities

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• The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Athlete, Opera, Singers

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• An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Athlete, Order, Levels

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• The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Success, Men, Practice

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• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Hippie, Reading, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

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• I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

  Jo Brand

  Running, Cancer, Exercise

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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Cutting, Science, Men

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Educational, Media, Osteoporosis

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• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Community, Downtown

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• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Strong, Hockey

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, People, Evil

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• There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Political, Creation, Incompatibility

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• The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

  Anatole France

  Thinking, Mania

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• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Meditation, He Man

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Reality, Theory

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

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• One who fears failure limits his activities.

  Henry Ford

  Fear, Failure, Limits

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.14, 谷月社

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