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• That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Needs, Sides, Partners

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• Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Sports, Exercise, Thinking

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Home, Play

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• There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Law, Study

  Thomas Commerford Martin, Nikola Tesla (1894). “The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting”

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• The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Church, Majority

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• Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior.

  Susan Forward

  Passion, Love Is, Romance

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• I just keep active - everything thats challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

  Gal Gadot

  Challenges, Feels

  “Gal Gadot Talks Batman Vs. Superman Workout Routine” by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. April 1, 2014.

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• I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.

  Brendan Dooling

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  Yaya DaCosta

  Mother, Father, Rights

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• I am a very active person. I have a lot of energy, and I love to be doing something physical all the time.

  Tiffany Dupont

  Energy, Persons

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• The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Sweet, Loss

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• There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
  [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Als

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• To be active is the primary vocation of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Action, Vocation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Limits, Use

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• We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Physiognomy

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• Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

  Ouida

  Envy, Emulation, Virtue

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Memories, Forget, Easy

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• The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

  Anais Nin

  Character, America, Shells

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• Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Simple, Reality

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• Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

  George Canning

  Party, Exercise, Practice

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.533

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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• Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

  Helen Keller

  Faith, Despair, No Fear

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