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• Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

  Gustave de Molinari

  Political, Branches, Strange

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Yield, Psychology

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• The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

  J. I. Packer

  Angel, Men, Goal

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• Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Thinking, Identity

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• There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  People, Enlightened

  "Zen Millionaire: The Investor's Guide to the Other Side". Book by Paul Farrell, 2007.

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• The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Emotional, Thinking, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Goal, Achieve

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.4, Jaico Publishing House

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• What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

  Brian Tracy

  Decision, Success In Life, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 24, 2012

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• This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Views, Achievement

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• Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

  Erik Larson

  Eye, Men, Blue

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• Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Running, Lonely, Loneliness

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.48, Harmony

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• I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

  James Black

  Passion, Progress, Tissues

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• Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

  John Wooden

  Accomplishment, Hustle

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might be big enough to cause a recession in the U.S. economy—while not fully allayed have diminished. Moreover, while the future for housing activity remains uncertain, I think there is a reasonable chance that housing is in the process of stabilizing, which would mean that it would put a considerably smaller drag on the economy going forward.

  Janet Yellen

  Mean, Thinking, Lines

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• The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Memories, Animal, Behaviour

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• The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

  David Brooks

  Brain, Mind, Desire

  "Beyond the Brain". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 2013.

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• All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Air, Water, Soil

  Gaylord Nelson, Susan M. Campbell, Paul A. Wozniak (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.18, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  Gary Bauer

  Art, President, Use

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• To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Faithful, Regularity

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• The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.

  Eric Kandel

  Cells, Challenges, Brain

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• I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Want, Purity

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for ‘Get Out, Leave Family.’

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Dad, Golf, Games

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• All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

  Brian Swimme

  People, Essentials, Stories

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• Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Creative, Meditation, Silence

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