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• A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Strong, Cutting, Opposites

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• [Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She's talking to me.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Talking, Decision, Challenges

  "In Hillary's Footsteps: Kirsten Gillibrand". Vogue, November 2010.

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• Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

  Emily Levine

  Voice, Objectivity, Passive

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• I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Issues, Humanity, Arms

  Interview with Fareed Zakaria, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 30, 2011.

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• Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Hands, Creating

  Errico Malatesta (1965). “Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas”

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• Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Fighting, People

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• In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.

  David Boaz

  Mean, Doors, People

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• Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Mass Destruction

  "15 Years of Mass Destruction in Iraq". "The Real News Network" with Sharmini Peries, therealnews.com. March 20, 2018.

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• I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

  George Steinbrenner

  Yankees, Clubs, Balls

  "Yankee Imperialist" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. July 8, 2002.

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• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Success, Powerful

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• The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Meditation, Helping

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• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  David Cannadine

  Compassion, Self, Florence Nightingale

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• The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

  Sean O'Casey

  Book, Thinking, Artist

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• If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Fall, People

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• When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Order

  Hilaire Belloc (2017). “The Great Heresies”, p.110, Ignatius Press

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• At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Wisdom, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.239

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• In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Leaving

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• Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

  Georg Brandes

  School, Home, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

  Bob Newhart

  Drama, Character, Aversion

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

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• As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

  Thomas Browne

  Brain, Atheism, Divinity

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9

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• Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Happy Life

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• Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Conquer The World, Atheism, Contemplative

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Atheism, Firsts, Gone

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.322, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.

  William Godwin

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.158

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• The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

  Max Planck

  Art, Creative, Atheism

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