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• As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Strong, Exercise, Men

  1841 Of detective work.'TheMurders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

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• Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

  Thornton Wilder

  Skeletons, Water, Rejection

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

  Wilbur Olin Atwater

  Sweet, Health, Exercise

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• Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

  Steve Blank

  Trust, Development, Waterfalls

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

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• All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

  Dennis C. Blair

  Trust, Senior, Government

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• We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

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• We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Views, Consciousness, Individual

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.31, editionNEXT.com

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• Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

  Fred Singer

  Energy, Climate, Environment

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Bridges, Skills

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• The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Teaching, Curves, Assessment

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• There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Two, People, Use

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)”, p.170, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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