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“It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human activity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“But I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours—that is another matter.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“So, our honest politicians and our honorable corporation heads owe it to their reputations to bring their activities out into the open.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a...” George Orwell, 1984
“Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Consequently those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for the contemplative by the practice of the active life; while none the less, those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the...” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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