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«Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.»
«Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.»
«Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.»
«I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.»
«Never mistake activity for achievement.»
Author: John Wooden | Keywords: achievement, activity
«It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.»
«One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.»
«I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.»
«Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.»
«Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.»

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