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• Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

  John Travolta

  Men, Hollywood, Favors

  "John Travolta Sued By Masseur For Assault And Sexual Battery", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.

  Rick Santorum

  Military, Type

  Fox News-Google GOP Debate, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

  John Lone

  Thinking, Sound, Want

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• Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

  Rick Perry

  Sex, Choices, Alcohol

  "Rick Perry’s Lesser-Known First Book Could Be A Distraction From Economy-Centered Message" By Jon Ward, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Epidemics

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• My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activity—at least not until the children come along in goodly numbers

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sports, Football, Sex

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• My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.

  Antoni Tapies

  Believe, Philosophical, Thinking

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• The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Lying, Character

  Urie BRONFENBRENNER (1979). “The Ecology of Human Development”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Writing, Common Sense

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• The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

  Robert Greene

  Character, Self, Creative

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.179, Penguin

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• The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rewards, Given

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Wisdom, Earth

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

  Florence Nightingale

  Doe, World, Moral

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) (1928). “"The cause": a short history of the women's movement in Great Britain”

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• Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.

  Jacob Bigelow

  Hands, Medicine, Waiting

  Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231

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• Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

  Banksy

  Art, Police, Today

  "Banksy street stall prints, sold for $60, set to make small fortune at Bonham's" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2014.

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• The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

  Cal Thomas

  Art, Reading, Government

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

  Milton Friedman

  Jobs, Political, Income

  "The Best of Both Worlds". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. June 1995.

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• Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

  Armando Iannucci

  Journey, Meditation, Listening

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• Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Dark, Would Be

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• The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.

  Emile Durkheim

  Passion, Men, Meditation

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Rap, Exercise

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• But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  Nikola Tesla

  Powerful, Women, Civilization

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.  Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.  When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.  A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  Francis Chan

  God, Sports, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook

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• Never confuse activity with productivity.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose Driven Life, Driven, Productivity

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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