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• Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Methodology, Should

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

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• It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."

  Isak Dinesen

  Discovery, Ideas, Joy

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

  James Madison

  Drawing, Spheres, Vortex

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.229

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• It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Government, Limits, Spending

  Charles Edward Merriam (1903). “A History of American Political Theories”

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• When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Destiny, Long, People

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Marine, Men, Swings

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• Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

  Daniel Levitin

  Music, Communication, Speech

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.260, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.

  Justus von Liebig

  Spring, Fall, Mean

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• Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

  Robert South

  Power, Men, Drawing

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.140

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• People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Purpose

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• The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Stress, Worry

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• But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

  Albert Einstein

  Passion, Eye, Intelligent

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Kind, Immune System, Immune

  Reinhard Bonnke (2001). “Mark My Word: A Daily Devotional by Reinhard Bonnke”, Full Flame Gmbh

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• We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

  Elaine Chao

  Illegal Activities, Pathways, Immigration

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• If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is the only state on our planet which I want to represent with my art and all my public activities, no matter where I live.

  Evgeny Kissin

  Art, Israel, People

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• The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

  Colin Ward

  Agency, Cells, Links

  Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.69, PM Press

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• I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

  David Petersen

  Meaningful, Essentials, Hunters

  David Petersen (2014). “Racks: A Natural History of Antlers and the Animals That Wear Them”, p.114, Booktango

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• Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Spiritual, Awe, Worldly

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• Women in the public eye and on TV are often scrutinized for how they look so I know how easy it would be to fall into the trap of taking on board this negativity. The healthiest way for me to deal with it is by being fit and healthy through activities like swimming, which helps me focus on what my body can do rather than what it looks like.

  Gabby Logan

  Fall, Eye, Swimming

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• Live your life by doing activities that are beneficial

  Jimmy Fallon

  Live Your Life, Beneficial

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• The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

  Patty Duke

  Awards, Rights, Treasure

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.295, Bantam

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• Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

  Matt Damon

  Soccer, Rain, Fire

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• I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

  Gertrude Stein

  Struggle, Mean, Elements

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• And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

  Mario Batali

  Practice, Two, Perfect

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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