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Letter "A" » activity
«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion»
«Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.»
Author: Paul J. Meyer
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activity, carefully, day by day, maintained, month, month by month, organized, wellspring, wellsprings
«There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love
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activity, enterprise, expectations, fails, hardly, hopes, regularly, started, tremendous
«There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
activity, insight, terrible
«Philosophy is not a theory but an activity»
«People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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activity, chopping, immediately, Into the Woods, in this, results, sees, wood
«Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Fitness
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activity, basis, creative activity, dynamic, fitness, healthy, intellectual, keys, physical body, physical fitness
«Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
activity, assurance, assurances
«The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity»
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