Activity Quotes - Page 5

• I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Important, Sound

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug trafficking. But if your funds derive from trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation, for example, or from illegal arms trafficking or any other illegal activity, then banks in the US are legally free to accept your money and are not required to report your deposit to the authorities.

  Thomas Pogge

  Children, Illegal Activities, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Reality, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off from the external action at all. For example, the bazaar in which the Sufis were very strong always dominated economic life in Islamic world. They could give a much more sane and Islamic form of activity when the economic life of Islam moved out of the bazaar to new parts of Islamic cities with modernized Muslims, who took it in another light and it became very, very anti Islamic, and much against many of the most profound practices of Islamic societies.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Strong, Islamic, Cutting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Wine, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Usa, Political, Reorganization

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• [My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Teenager, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• "Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Attitude, Government, Cities

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. I don't feel that I can sit in judgment on them, or that society can sit in judgment on them. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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• There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised. One of these is eating. Nobody's going to license me to do this. Another one is bodily disposals. I will defecate and urinate when I damn well please and as the spirit -and the physical necessity -moves me. And my sex life is peculiarly my own. I will engage in sexual activity with a consenting male any time and any place I damn well please.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Moving, Males

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• When I was producing the first solo album, i just wanted to convey some messages through it. The message was 'no blood will come out even if I am pinned' However, after trying out different kinds of music activities, I started to change and wanted to convey my real emotion that I have in my everyday life. I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once, in music so I think people will feel/understand my songs.

  G-Dragon

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Source: jiyongness.blogspot.com

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• We know for a fact the Russians tried to change the outcome of our election, attacking the very fundamental of democracy. We know they did that. We need to know how, we need to know why, and most of all we need to know what to do to prevent this kind of activity, which they continue to carry on in free nations around the world.

  John McCain

  Democracy, Needs, Fundamentals

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.

  Albert Hofmann

  Drug, Magic, Mexico

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Mean, Rights

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• When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone in a forest, or sometimes looking at the stars. There's really something very powerful about nature that's endlessly mysterious and a reminder of our humanity, our mortality, of more existential things that we usually manage to not get involved with very often because of daily activity.

  Shirin Neshat

  Stars, Powerful, Ocean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Middle East, Revolutionary, Regimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The color red is symbolic of passion and action, so this Vajrayogini, as she's called, comes with a mantra and she comes with these various weapons and accouterments that are all symbolic of the kind of activity that this principle, as it were, this psychological principle, does or activates in the world. And there's text and mantra as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Passion, Color, Principles

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Country, Believe, Countries Of The World

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• So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

  John Abizaid

  Political, Environmental, Violence

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• Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

  Walter Annenberg

  Team, Play, Giving

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• To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Live Well, Shows

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• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Excess, Common

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• If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Opportunity

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• Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

  Dave Barry

  Snowboarding, People, Literature

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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