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• All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Memories, Discovery

  Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• ...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Exercise, Government, Play

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.93, Best Books on

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• Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

  Patrick Geddes

  Successful, Simple, Average

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• Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

  Bradley Whitford

  Mistake, Hero, Despair

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Light, Circles, Oval

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Struggle, Support

  Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau, July 1936.

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• The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Animal, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

  William Gibson

  Lying, Writing, Vanity

  William Gibson @GreatDismal, twitter.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Death, Eye, Looks

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Swimming, Empty Life

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• And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Loneliness, People, Solitude

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

  Jerome Bruner

  Views, Mind, Stories

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Real, Animal, Sky

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.193, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Thinking, Opposites

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• We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Flight, Appearance, Prove

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2016). “The Complete Collection (with the book "The Power of the Spoken Word")”, p.99, Florence Scovel Shinn

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• The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Years, Dmt

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• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  Plato

  Running, Strong, Thinking

  Plato (0101). “Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

  Rollo May

  Healing, Process, Cures

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Battle, Causes

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Important, Principles, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Creating, Stories

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• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  Elvin Jones

  Musical, Ensemble, Arms

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• The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.

  Wayne Dyer

  Goal, Secret, Wish

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