Engaged Quotes - Page 19

• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Agriculture, India

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• I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

  Mark Burnett

  Real, War, People

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships". Interview with Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  America, People, History

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, People, Engagement

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• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Perspective, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

  Deepak Chopra

  Health, Benefits, Mature

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• I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, People, Want

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• But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

  Tony Dungy

  Children, Dad, Father

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• I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Dating, Say Anything, Married

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

  Tryon Edwards

  Engagement, Definitions, Firsts

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.246, Ravenio Books

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• I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

  Leslie Fiedler

  People, Experts, Engagement

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• Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

  Virginia Foxx

  Iraq, Support, Brave

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• It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

  Anna Freud

  Mother, Children, Feelings

  Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”

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• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

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• Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

  Richard Gere

  Listening, Acting, World

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• I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Thinking, Training, Example

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• You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Tunes, Engagement

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

  Andrew Greeley

  Engagement, Behavior, Surveys

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• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Running, Men, Risk

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• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  Larry Hagman

  Real, War, Korea

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• We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Government, Trying

  Debates (Hansard) No. 68 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. June 4, 2009.

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• Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Engagement, Charlie

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• I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

  Francois Hollande

  Europe, Want, Retreat

  "Hollande fires warning shot at Merkel over austerity on eve of EU summit" by Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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