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“Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.”

Ifs Knows Happens Sound Space Healing Silence Activity Letting Go Bases Notes Things Happen Settling Ingredients Stillness Inactivity

Author:Paul Horn

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Activity Standards Research Discovery Tradition Accounts Impression Usual Novelty Journalistic Flashy Newsworthy

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”

People Humans Passion Emotion Movement Activity Casts Midst Goddess Distress Ruthless Torches Spoken Word Mein Kampf Eruption Volcanic Eruptions

Book:Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

“Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.”

May Mean Action Opinion Enemy Influence Duty Pure Activity Messages Sacred Obstacles Spread Deception Triumph Zeal Civics Propagation Fabricate

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.”

Sports Secret Military Creation Activity Circles Despite Butterfly Sections Neglected Collectors Secret Intelligence

Book:Secrecy in Britain

Source: Secrecy in Britain

“When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.”

Government Sports Records Team Activity Locals Gang Employers Bankers Unprecedented Merchants Sports Team Landlord

Author:William Safire

“I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.”

Joy Order Given Morning Expression Duty Activity Performing Rejoice Gladness Whatever Works

Book:The Art of Meditation

Source: The Art of Meditation

“I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.”

Believe Spiritual Law Political Social Economic Fields Activity Ordinary Contrary

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?”

Should Real Home Government Used Crime Communication Internet Activity Concern Phones Commit Grants Capability Disguise Unlimited Encryption Orwellian

Author:John Ashcroft

“Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Seems Natural Example Activity Creatures South Males Testing Pacific Slap Shaving Mating Beetles Aqua

Book:The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

“We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.”

Giving Would Be Achieve Activity Resistance Resolve Scope Maximum Paralysis

Book:On Enlightenment

Source: On Enlightenment

“I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.”

Ifs Mean Activity Draws Drawing

Author:David Hockney

“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.”

Art Lying Left Behinds Half Grace Painting Poet Masters Activity Soldier Finished Thinker Replaced Left Behind Statesmen Provinces Completion God's Grace Great Poet

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.”

Should Littles Economic Policy Activity Property Satisfaction Productions Arguing Objectives Consumption Economic Policy Subtraction

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Climbing is often group activity and it's always inspiring to see how other people, who share your passions, do things.”

People Passion Groups Share Activity Climbing

Author:Fred Nicole

“I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.”

Earth Activity Superiority Advancement

Book:How Reading Changed My Life

Source: How Reading Changed My Life

“The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.”

“Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.”

People Believe Humans Law Belief Vision Activity Limits Human Activity Moore's Law

Author:Carver Mead

“So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.”

“Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.”

Trying Long Running Lines Levels Activity Lows Managers Programming Executives Long Runs Assembly Programmers Low Level Inhumane Assembly Line

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.”

Individual Social Process Results Particular Activity Available Range Theoretical Exceed Cognition

Author:Ludwik Fleck

“Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.”

People Hours Pay Activity Opposites Sells Merchandise

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.”

Men Evil Results Activity Goodness Conscious

Author:Xunzi

“Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?”

Ifs Writing Two Certain Given Easy Risk Dangerous Activity Paper Approach Pushing Pens Topics Bullfighting

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“If you believe in god, it's much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that's so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.”

Ifs Thinking Years Believe Long Ideas Done Universe Activity Years Ago Train Seven Billions Fantastic Believe In God Satisfying Thrilling If You Believe Seven Days

Author:Bill Bryson

“The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.”

People Way Country Problem Film Clear Industry Activity Tradition Hollywood Fingers Productions Distribution Animation Procedures Crossings Film Industry Snipers

Author:Raul Garcia

“I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.”

Feels Young Choices Black Environment Students Activity Ideology

Author:Kamala Harris

“The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic activity are just moving money from one pool to another, whereas technology is what allows us to create value out of thin air.”

Humans Reason Moving Values Technology Creative Air Economic Type Activity Pool Thin Air

Author:D.A. Wallach

“The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care which the socialist promise us, and which can be obtained only by relieving the individual at the same time of the necessity and of the power of choice: it must be the freedom of economic activity which, with the right of choice, inevitably also carries the risk and the responsibility of that right”

Care Choices Individual Responsibility Risk Economic Promise Activity Carrie Socialist Prerequisites Power Of Choice Economic Freedom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.”

Humans May Action Form Actors Effort Conditions Fashion Produce Activity Projects Conscious Consequence Flow Feedback Human History Elude Unintended Consequences

Author:Anthony Giddens

“To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.”

Knows States Facts Law Lying Term Activity Authority Concerned Defined Principal Great Author

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.”

Ifs May Activity Interfere Poisonous Cobras

Author:Ajahn Chah

“First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.”

Firsts Light Life Is Universe Walks Awareness Circumstances Drink Activity Rivers Machines Miracle Tea Dishes Repetition Leafs Rushing Torches Mindless

Book:Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.”

Ideas Whole House Fronts Baby Amount Activity Department Yards Interiors Enterprising Irrepressible

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.”

Men Writing Has Beens Made Past Activity Essentials Late Training Too Late My Past

Book:Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

“Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.”

Age Sex Activity Dancing

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.”

Knows Activity Engaged Right Time Right Place

Author:Leonard Orr

“There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.”

World Humans Can Do Human Beings Our Lives Activity Limits Honorable

Author:David Foreman

“We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.”

“While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.”

World Ends Doubt Activity Terrorist No Doubt Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Removal

Author:John Key

“There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.”

Action Loss Risk Military Activity Hazards Inactivity

Author:Robert E. Lee

“Activity is contagious.”

Activity Contagious

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851

“An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.”

Spiritual Emotional Exercise Activity Majors Rational Ideology Prose Logical Ritual Aphorism Mixtures Antipathy Prose And Poetry

Author:William C. Brown

“There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.”

Spiritual Activity Shapes Mathematics Colour Proportion Bricks Geometry Legos

Author:James May

“No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.”

States Activity Organization Loyalty Scales Chiefs Preparation Large Scale Homicide

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.”

Growth Company Higher Activity Strive Profit

Author:Paul Achleitner

“I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

Thinking Shows Form Artist Values Cities Building Activity Our Society Coherence

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“Hamburg will have a new and important attraction with which it can distinguish itself from other cities. But the important thing is that activities should not just be limited to the building, but that the concert hall should symbolize a general mood of creative rejuvenation.”

Should Important Cities Creative Building Activity Important Things Attraction Mood Halls Concerts Rejuvenation

Author:Charles Landry

“As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.”

Writing Littles Stills Bits Novel Written Activity Little Bit Esoteric Great Writing Technicians Great Novels

Author:Jonathan Lethem

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