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“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Thinking Men Trying Doe Hard Play Courses Force Natural Activity Capable Machines Intense Latter Comparison Exertion

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.”

Mind Activity Capable Restful

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.”

Years States Girl Work Ready Activity Capable Hundred Ideals Womanhood Earnest Descendants Dreamy Sturdy Hampshire New Hampshire

Author:Lucy Larcom

“A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.”

Years Mind Children Littles Stills Two Age Able Three Numbers Effort Periods Activity Achievement Capable Concepts Lays Acquire Unconscious Exploring Surroundings Absorption

Author:Maria Montessori

“The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Self Use Body Actors Views Type Activity Capable Resources Defense Libertarian Owners Ownership Scarce Scarce Resources Homesteading Self Ownership

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.”

Men Activity Capable Opening Fragments Frontiers Opening Up

Author:Albert Einstein

“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

“Matter is capable of infinite subdivision...All matter is in a state of perpetual activity [motion], whether the substance under consideration be inanimate or animated, visible or invisible...There is no dividing of matter and force into two distinct terms, as they both are ONE. FORCE is liberated matter. MATTER is force in bondage.”

Two Matter States Force Term Activity Capable Infinite Invisible Substance Visible Consideration Perpetual Bondage Animated Liberated Dividing

Author:John Ernst Worrell Keely

“The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.”

People States Social Violence Activity Creating Capable Institutions Manage Monopoly

Author:Murray Bookchin

“One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.”

Men Want Hard Sleep Arms Activity Capable Legs Chiefs Faculty Typical Tire

Book:How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.”

Ifs Made Animal Numbers Wonder Activity Capable Bird Prison Made It Prisoner Regulation Brutal Harsh Delighted Refined Large Numbers

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.”

Men Believe Christian Grace Activity Worship Highest Capable Grace Of God True Worship

Author:John Stott

“The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth power). The brain is obviously capable of an imponderably huge variety of activity; the fact that it is often organized and functional is quite an accomplishment!”

Facts Numbers Brain Millions Huge Activity Ten Capable Patterns Variety Accomplishment Organized Immense Firing Staggering

Book:The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Source: The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are