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“Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.”

People States Together Past Political Choices Politics Community Chance Groups Activity Ancient Clubs Arrangements Attending Hereditary Lineage

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility.”

People Children Political Politics Responsibility Groups Activity Members Arrangements Lunatic Attending

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.”

“What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.”

People Way Looks Important Play Feelings Levels Emotion Roles Influence Fashion Activity Regard Practicals Aesthetic

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.”

People Way Mind Young Spirit Literature Pleasure Activity Texting

Author:Katherine Paterson

“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)

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people.”

People Care Activity

Author:Pope Francis

“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”

“People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.”

People Stills Strong Term Violence Activity Response Numb

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.”

People Done Social Process Greater Cost Activity Benefits Trade Certainty Probability Labeling Sorting Trade Offs

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.”

People Mind Littles Today Focus Activity Average Terrific Little Minds Average Minds

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.”

People Ideas Night Sky Rocks Listening Type Activity Driving Tales Chairs Climbing Diving Knitting Rock Climbing

Author:Glenn McQuaid

“It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.”

“Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”

People World Want Believe Country Force Causes Effort Activity Gains Logic Regard Aim Israel Occupation Palestine Ruthless Settlement Apartheid Legitimacy Countries Of The World

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.”

People World Want Littles Today Speak Bits Worry Streets Danger Couple Walking Activity Little Bit Tradition Texting Today's World Jewish Tradition

Author:Ruth Westheimer

“Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.”

People Matter Done Activity Accomplishment

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Littles Ideas Whole Might Song Asks Sides Interesting Scene Activity Ask Me Abstract Tangible Analyzing

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature.”

People Men Ends Order Magic Activity Individuality Strokes Indispensable

Author:Adolf Hitler

“As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.”

People Has Beens Country Activity Trade Other Countries

Author:Emilio Pucci

“Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.”

People Body Results Evolution Activity Dues Reactions Educated Unseen Frequency Premonition Sensing

Author:Annie Besant

“[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.”

People Country Interest Citizens Activity Speech Harm

Author:Thein Sein

“If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?”

“It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.”

People Giving Economy Activity Taxes Creating Assuming Ridiculous Destroying

Author:Yaron Brook

“Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.”

People Ifs Kind Doe Play Hands Social Fields Activity Killing Enlightened Agendas Legislation Euthanasia Killing Others

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.”

“A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.”

People Writing Doors Activity Office Creating Assuming Code Software Solitary

Author:Bill Gates

“Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.”

People World Want Giving Should Persons Self Values Realizing Situation Events Involved Easier Activity Demand Surrender Passing Passings Lasting Imperfect Fleeting Make You Happy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.”

People Want Feels Reading Literature Bits Results Perspective Activity Comfortable Management Complexes Affair Operations Acknowledge Insignificance

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a lot of food for thought, but people have to remain curious and get their brain activity food from other places besides punk.”

People Way Stills Interesting Brain Scene Activity Band Curious Punk Cool People

Author:Jello Biafra

“Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.”

Source: Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels

“Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?”

People Doe Different Problem Lying White Accepting Conditions Movement Fields Cost Activity Whiteness

Author:David Roediger

“Now, as far as monitoring is concerned, what my point is, we need to make sure that any place - I don't care whether it's a mosque, a school, a supermarket, a theater, you know it doesn't matter. If there are a lot of people getting there and engaging in radicalizing activities then we need to be suspicious of it.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Matter Care School Activity Concerned Theater Don't Care I Don't Care Engaging Suspicious Supermarkets Mosques Monitoring

Author:Benjamin Carson

“People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.”

People Two Moments Happens Attention Activity Ideals Performances Reactions Pay Attention Fixed Listeners Transport

Author:John Cage

“As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.”

People Long Made Able Form Term Security Return Offers Activity Investment Rate Permanent Long Term Pleasant Buying Grades Controlled Ownership Nevertheless Conjunctions

Author:Warren Buffett

“I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.”

“Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.”

People Way Giving Helping Would Be Bits Community Activity Capable Machines Cooking Busy Active Contribution Housework

Author:Jean Vanier

“People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Bigs Decision Cases Stupid Activity Bases Paid Lots Of Money Wrong Things Sinister Being Stupid Stupid Decision

Author:Michael Lewis

“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.”

“The job of a president is to identify, distinguish between the two. Make sure the people know that we view it as a threat that we're - because people are scared and they're legitimately so. Take action accordingly. And then you're going to lessen people's fears on the day-to-day activities. We can't be paralyzed in place. And that's where we are today.”

People Knows Two Today Action Jobs President Views Activity Threat Scared Day To Day Paralyzed

Author:Jeb Bush

“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

“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

“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'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

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