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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

John Maynard Keynes

Business, Yield, Psychology

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Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.

John Maynard Keynes

Country, Jobs, Serious

1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

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Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

Phyllis Schlafly

School, Taught, Should

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The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

J. I. Packer

Angel, Men, Goal

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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

Lorrie Moore

Writing, Thinking, Identity

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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Bob Schaffer

Prayer, Kindness, Peaceful

"Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Shunryu Suzuki

People, Enlightened

"Zen Millionaire: The Investor's Guide to the Other Side". Book by Paul Farrell, 2007.

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The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

Shunryu Suzuki

Emotional, Thinking, Practice

Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

Stanislav Grof

Sex, Essentials, Affair

Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.154, SUNY Press

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Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Nick Rahall

Unique, Wilderness, Absence

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Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

Brian Tracy

People, Goal, Achieve

Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.4, Jaico Publishing House

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What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

Brian Tracy

Decision, Success In Life, Behavior

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 24, 2012

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In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

Jim Gerlach

Iran, Iraq, United States

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This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Christian, Views, Achievement

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Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

Erik Larson

Eye, Men, Blue

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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
a part of our lives?

Alan Kay

Art, Reading, Writing

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We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

Layne Staley

Kids, Eye, Shoes

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Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

Sakyong Mipham

Running, Lonely, Loneliness

Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.48, Harmony

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Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

Sogyal Rinpoche

Silence, Noise, Stranger

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I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

James Black

Passion, Progress, Tissues

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Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

John Wooden

Accomplishment, Hustle

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I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were no reflexive processes to be found; sometimes I failed to find them; and, what was the most painful of all, sometimes I got them wrong. One way or another, I often invested without a worthwhile hypothesis and my activities were not very different from a random walk.

George Soros

Lying, Different, Would Be

George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Heart, Greatness, Age

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On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Thicke

Sports, Selfish, Enjoy

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Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Rick Warren

Events, Purpose, Life Is

Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.14, Harper Collins

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