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It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Eric Metaxas

Prayer, Apathy, Strongest

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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Spiritual, Real, Giving

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Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

John Thain

Knowledgeable, Position, Regulators

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According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

Susan Polgar

Children, Class, Research

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Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Ayya Khema

Suffering, Mindfulness, Courses

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Remember that transformation is a present activity.

Jillian Michaels

Transformation, Remember

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Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

Jillian Michaels

Motivational, New Years Resolution, Events

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Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Facts, Common

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

Russell L. Ackoff

Art, Creative, Inspire

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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Aleister Crowley

God, Taken, Eye

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

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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

Alan Dean Foster

Inspirational, Basketball, Character

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To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition, Deception, Tasks

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Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.

John Dewey

Mean, Ingredients, Study

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.181, 谷月社

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It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

John Dewey

Philosophy, Healing, Technique

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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Sigmund Freud

Symbolism, Imagination, Age

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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

William James

Men, Mind, Way

William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Jurgen Habermas

Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

"Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

Hannah Arendt

Men, World, Makers

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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

Louis Althusser

Real, Men, Rejection

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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

Manny Farber

Art, Moss, Peculiar

Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.135, Da Capo Press

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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

Spiritual, Thinking, Painting

Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”

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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

Willem de Kooning

Lying, Thinking, Way

Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.

John Paul Stevens

People, Feelings, Desire

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No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Robert Bork

Thinking, Harm, Immoral

Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in local activities, get involved in local initiatives, be involved in leadership positions because you can’t learn unless you are involved. And if you make mistakes that is alright too because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

Wangari Maathai

Mistake, People, Important

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