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• Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

  Fred Singer

  Energy, Climate, Environment

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• The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Science, Experts, Purpose

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• Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Meditation Practice, Trying

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

  John Pilger

  Dream, War, Party

  "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Creative, Heartless, Information

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

  Charles Edison

  Kings, Hate, Play

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• Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

  Robert Harris

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Voice, Design, Identity

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• Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

  Norman Mailer

  Answers, Obsession, Coming Back

  Interview with Divina Infusino, American Way Magazine, June 15, 1995.

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• It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

  Robert Kennedy

  Political, Mind, Tasks

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

  Michio Kaku

  Driving, Global Warming, Controversial

  "Monster snowstorms still spell global warming" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Overrated, Humans

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• Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

  William Feather

  Baseball, Acceptance, Men

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• Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, Done, Good Christian

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

  Pope John Paul II

  Communication, Culture, Humans

  "Centesimus Annus". Encyclical Letter on the Hundreth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum, w2.vatican.va. May 01, 1991.

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• All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Program, Institutions

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• Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Nuclear, Normal, Air Pollution

  Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Wolves Eat Dogs”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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  If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.

  Harvey Milk

  Being Yourself, Gay, Expression

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Univ of California Press

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• All human activity is prompted by desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Humans, Activity

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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• War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Events

  "The Essential Clausewitz: Selections from On War".

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• Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or less than the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge-and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Running, Educational, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspirational, Leadership, Attitude

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• Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  Lionel Trilling

  Literature, Possibility, Difficulty

  1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.

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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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