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The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
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Patrick Murray Quotes

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
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Plato Quotes

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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Albert Einstein Quotes

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
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Maria Montessori Quotes

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.
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Pierre Cabanis Quotes

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.
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Morris Kline Quotes

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Aristotle Quotes

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.
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Dave Barry Quotes

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
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Brian Eno Quotes

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
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Paul Sweezy Quotes

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes