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“When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.”

Want Violence Activity Prose Describing Wartime

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].”

Ifs Done Chance Sleep Activity Bed Afternoon Viruses Naps Infection Afternoon Naps

Author:Margaret Chan

“The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction.”

Social Cutting Streets Wall Republican Activity Projects Program Speed Criminals Administration Social Programs Malfeasance

Author:Chris Hedges

“Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.”

“I eat organic as much as possible, cleanse regularly, and love outdoor activities like paddle boarding, hiking, swimming, kickboxing, and yoga. But honestly it's more of a psychological thing for me. If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.”

Ifs Feels Body Activity Yoga And Love Treats Honestly Feel Good Psychological Swimming Hiking I Feel Good Kickboxing Outdoor Activities

Author:Ashley Rickards

“Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.”

People Important Motivation Wish Realizing Effort Example Planets Activity Fame Protect Charity Profit Various Sincere Our Planet Charitable Charity Work

Author:Li Bingbing

“I don't have a very routine life; the kids' activities, our nightly routines, and morning routines are about as routine as it gets. In the middle of it all - other than my morning coffee, toast, and trying to get 7-8 hours of sleep a night - each day is different.”

Trying Different Kids Night Hours Sleep Morning Middle Activity Coffee Each Day Routine Toasts Morning Coffee Morning Routines Routine Life

Author:Lisa Loeb

“It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."”

“The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses.”

Seems Government Able Political Easy Heard Students Drug Activity Addiction University Get Away Engaging Campus Drug Addiction Drug Addict University Students

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"”

“And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people from all over the world who want to engage in these activities gravitate to. They're going now to places like Syria or Yemen Libya, elsewhere.”

People Thinking World Want Mean Activity International Destination Elsewhere Syria Pakistan Libya Yemen

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“There's dozens of unrelated policy provisions tucked inside of it. I'll give you a sense of a handful of them. One is a visa waiver program change. It's going to make it harder for people who've traveled to places with terrorist activity to get into the U.S. They're going to have to go through an added layer of security.”

People Giving Security Policy Activity Program Harder Terrorist Dozen Layers Traveled Handful Provision Visa Waiver

Author:Susan Davis

“Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.”

“I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascinating, there's an entire realm of human activity that's important and literally vital to our survival and yet we've vilified it. That's one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me.”

Thinking Way Want Humans Important Reason Sex Religious Interesting Personality Activity Survival Realms Fascinating Stations Really Interesting Human Activity

Author:Brad Warner

“We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.”

Use Order Results Deals Cases Support Activity Weapons Concern Deny Nuclear Income Regions Agreement Fund Iran Mechanism Nuclear Weapons Provision Lifting Sanctions Snaps Robust Inspection

Author:Adel al-Jubeir

“In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.”

States Process Levels Brain Activity Remains Description Probability

Author:Patricia Churchland

“Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy trade-off in the monkey's decision, and you can see from the neuron's activity at what point in his accumulation of evidence he makes his decision to make a particular movement.”

Decision Study Movement Particular Activity Evidence Trade Decision Making Monkeys Accumulation Accuracy Neurons Trade Offs

Author:Patricia Churchland

“Again, when we view a scene fleetingly, do we consciously see all the details even though we don't retain them, or do we not see them in the first place? Neurological information is crucial to deciding these questions. After all, they are so interesting precisely because unaided introspection cannot resolve them. Rather we need to know what is going on in the brain activities that constitute visual awareness.”

Knows Needs Firsts Interesting Views Brain Awareness Information Scene Activity Details Visuals Resolve Crucial Introspection

Author:David Papineau

“Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.”

Giving Humans Kind Important Self Reason Views Humility Activity Including Access Arguing Rational Conclusion Buddhist Analysis Infallible Human Activity

Author:Jay L. Garfield

“As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level.”

Persons Self Action Form Levels Activity Behavior Majors Conscious Concerned Determined

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“When you are simply observing your breath, you are perceiving an automatically unfolding process in your body. By contrast, when you are observing your wandering mind, you are also experiencing the spontaneous activity of a process in your body.”

Mind Body Process Activity Breaths Your Body Wander Contrast Spontaneous Observing Unfolding Wandering Mind

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.”

Activity Anticipation Enjoyable

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.”

Writing Environment Activity Built Enormous Potatoes Relentless Built Environment

Author:Teju Cole

“It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot.”

Thinking Way Mind Believe Philosophy Might I Believe Views Deals Clear Becoming Activity Intellectual Philosophical Make Sense Way Of Thinking Armchairs

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.”

People Thinking Want Challenges Effects Gay Activity Engaged Destructive Closets Behalf Want U Unwilling Gay People Advocating Anti Gay

Author:Christopher Rice

“Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.”

People Thinking Political Games Saws Activity Individuality Engaging Adversaries

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.”

Book Age Young Reading House Activity Understood Young Age

Author:Lisa Lucas

“There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.”

People Giving Real Effort Involved Activity Evidence Charitable

Author:Peter Kinderman

“I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.”

Has Beens Done Whole Activity Singing Singers Whole Life Reluctant

Author:Nina Simone

“For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time.”

Long Use Study Activity Majors Long Time Instruments Musical Performing Electronic Music Homemade Musical Instruments Music Making

Author:Yoshi Wada

“Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process.”

Kind Has Beens Process President Rights Involved Activity Bills Killing Dues Amendments Fourth Fifth Nsa Bill Of Rights Due Process Fourth Amendment Fifth Amendment

Author:Ray McGovern

“I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out to me the most.”

People Week Mets Activity Sticks Performing Amazing People

Author:Rayvon Owen

“I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.”

Culture Activity Typical Surfing Australian

Author:Jens Lekman

“If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.”

Ifs Natural Amount Activity Resources Preservation Incentives Restoration Natural Resources

Author:Ramez Naam

“Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It allows people in groups to do a non-verbal immediate activity together.”

People Mind Seems Together Groups Activity

Author:Tod Machover

“Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."”

Writing Wanted Girl Activity Lows Happenings Saying Yes

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.”

Whole Values Justice Pleasure Poor Activity Concern Property Driven Selling Obsessed Buying Margins Love And Trust Buying And Selling

Author:Cornel West

“I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.”

People Thinking Knows Want Pay Rocks Activity Racing Spares Mountaineering Spare Time Good Money

Author:John Cleese

“I think of choosing as a... both a fun and an effortful activity and I think of choice as something that in order for you to really get what you want out of it you have to put a lot into it and so I'm only willing to do that for a few different things and for the rest I really just try to either satisfy, come up with a simple rule or let somebody else make the choice.”

Thinking Want Trying Different Order Choices Fun Simple Willing Activity Come Up What You Want Different Things

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition. So that means the chess master or someone who has really thought about it and given themselves feedback on a particular activity for at least 10,000 hours or more.”

Ifs Kind Mean Reason Given Hours Particular Masters Activity Intuition Chess Guts Only Time Feedback

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region.”

Thinking Problem Activity Terrorist Usa Regions Hezbollah

Author:Joe Biden

“The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.”

Persons Courses Activity Homosexual Adjectives

Author:Gore Vidal

“To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.”

Needs Feels Important Action Values Activity Fulfilled Alignment

Author:Deborah Day

“You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.”

Way Kind Long Moving Desire Goal Term Can Do Business Talking Steps Plans Security Activity Investment Planning Setting Finance Settings Long Term Setting Goals Short Term Stockbrokers

Author:Alan Lakein

“The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.”

Life Inspirational Soul Inspirational Life Activity Opposites Pairs Liberated

Author:Patanjali

“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”

Feels Wells Play Games Levels Activity Skills Demand Tests Difficulty Video Escalating

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.”

Important Different Play Numbers Acting Pieces Kings Activity Gains Eight Chess Boards Units Diminish Formidable Different Directions Endgame

Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

“There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and harmonious, promoting communication with a cheerful demeanor and friendly words, that is much better than formal meditation practice.”

People Ifs Real Practice Meditation Communication Activity Everyday Friendly Taoism Sincere Formal Cheerful Tao Promoting Family Life Harmonious Meditation Practice Demeanor

Author:Zicheng Hong

“After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.”

Knows Has Beens Light Dark Silence Know How Dangerous Position Activity Climbs Taoism Tire Revealing Disturbing High Places

Author:Zicheng Hong

“Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.”

People Ifs Way Giving May Desire Dies Fire Sweet Activity Fame Concerned Longing Fortune Ill Illness Excitement Taoism Flavor Candy Unreal Chewing Sexual Desire

Author:Zicheng Hong

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