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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. -- Chiang Kai-shek
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Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. -- David Suzuki
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. -- Michio Kaku
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. -- Aldous Huxley
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour. -- Marvin Harris
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. -- Timothy Noah
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island. -- Julian Baggini
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. -- Norman Mailer
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. -- Robert Moog
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. -- Jacques Ellul
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. -- E. O. Wilson
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. -- Robert Kennedy
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. -- Thomas Huxley
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants. -- Sidney Lanier
You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. -- Philippe Petit
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man. -- Mary McCarthy
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. -- Ted Danson
There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them. -- Michael Specter
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources. -- Seth Shostak
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. -- Barry Commoner
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
All human activity is prompted by desire. -- Bertrand Russell
Thinking is the most overrated human activity. -- Wendell Berry
Nature, not human activity, rules the climate. -- Fred Singer
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. -- Jean Piaget
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. -- Niklaus Wirth
Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness. -- Parker J. Palmer
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. -- Michael Crichton
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity. -- Terence McKenna
Human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change. -- Bernie Sanders
Songs donâ??t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. -- Leonard Cohen
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. -- Xun Zi
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being -- Plato
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- Edward de Bono
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. -- Spiro Kostof
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- Edward de Bono
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture. -- Pope John Paul II
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. -- Paul Erdos
...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity. -- Julia Gillard
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. -- H. L. Mencken
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. -- Martin Cruz Smith
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. -- Alan Brien
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. -- Sigmund Freud
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. -- Karl Popper
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself. -- Kenneth Minogue
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. -- Frank Herbert
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. -- Lionel Trilling
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. -- Baruch Spinoza
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best. -- Simon Critchley
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue. -- Ernest Sosa
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. -- Paulo Freire
every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris. -- Rebecca West
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. -- Rick Warren
I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly. -- Christian Boltanski
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. -- David Hilbert
It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is. -- Bobby Jindal
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning. -- Langdon Winner
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity. -- Alistair Begg
The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice. -- Peter McWilliams
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. -- Northrop Frye
It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected. -- Jon Evans
After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings. -- Brad Shaw
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. -- Michael Longley
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it. -- Alan Watts
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth -- Leo Tolstoy
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. -- Simone Weil
"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity. -- Madonna Kolbenschlag
"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity. -- Lisa Murkowski
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. -- Brian Swimme
Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world. -- Bernie Sanders
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress. -- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity. -- Pope Francis
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. -- Ambrose Bierce
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. -- Alan Watts
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. -- Daniel J. Levitin
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. -- Daniel J. Levitin
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity... -- Bernie Sanders
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. -- Jean Vanier
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. -- Scott McCloud
Meditation is a spiritual human activity like mourning, fasting, or praying, and is not limited to one religious group while remaining unavailable to others. (103) -- David Brazzeal
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies? -- Leo Tolstoy
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world. -- Michael Shannon
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. -- Charles Edison
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? -- C. S. Lewis
[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change." -- Rush Limbaugh
[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change." -- Rush Limbaugh
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. -- William Howard Taft
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity. -- H. G. Wells
Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life. -- Keith Miller
I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious. -- David Shields
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home. -- Zoe Helene
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war. -- Carl von Clausewitz
You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time. -- Joe Bradley
I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions. -- Ayad Akhtar
Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine. -- Lance Secretan
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever. -- Ron Silver
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. -- E. O. Wilson
Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order. -- Josef Muller-Brockmann
I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature. -- Pope Francis
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity. -- George W. Bush
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought. -- John Gresham Machen

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