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Jean Piaget Quote: 'Logical activity is not the whole ...'

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I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
Gottfried Leibniz
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West
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I've always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.


Jessica Biel
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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
Alex Lowe
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
Donald Judd
I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?
William Shatner
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People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.


Cecily Strong
I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.
Conrad Anker
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America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.


Cesar Millan
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The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.


Matthew Arnold
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Malcolm X
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The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.
Marshall Herskovitz
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.


Immanuel Kant
Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.
Michael Kinsley
Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.
Mike McCaul
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
Amity Gaige
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