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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

~Anna Julia Cooper

Topics: Activities Gone Heart Her Inspire Large Life Many Men Old Possibilities Resources She Stagnant Subjective Swell Woman Wretched

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Being in Silicon Valley makes me strict when it comes to my children's technology use. I am surrounded by it all day, so I try to avoid it when I get home. I set screen-time limits, because I think it's good to diversify activities.

~Anne Wojcicki

Topics: Activities All Day Am Avoid Because Being Children Day Get Good Home Limits Makes Me Set Silicon Silicon Valley Strict Surrounded Technology Think Try Use Valley I Think I Am

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In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Activities Always Area Base Classified Documents Euphemism Facility Like Many Never Out Relating Test Words

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The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Activities Been Between Camp Cia Defense Department Either Fully King Late Never 1950S

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'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Activities Around Based Big Curiosity Different Glass Hamburg Lot Magnifying Me Memories Notebook Places Research Studying Them Traveling Walking Word

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My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.

~Anthony Mccarten

Topics: Activities Allow Almost Chance Create Forbidden Get Like Little Little Time Luxury Means Myself Routine Something Stolen Time Unrelated Write Writing

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Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Activities Available Cultural Found Jump Lack Means Over Through Time Traditional Women E-Commerce

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Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: Activities Countries Demand Drive Economy Global Growth Made Markets More Open Out People Possible Productive Pull Rapid Resources Subsistence Using Wagon Work World

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What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Activities Apology Bedside Child Happened Making Pay Reading Really Sale Story Stranger Then Think Us Wife Without Your Your Child

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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Activities Best Best Way Divide Need Sense Time Value Various Way

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