#activity

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads. ↗

— Walter Pater

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For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#any #emotion #expression #joyful #making

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#also #apparatus #clearly #disclosed #existence

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#britain #depressing #find #i #leisure

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

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I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#any #believe #business #every #exactly

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#also #focusing #just #mental #optical

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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