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• Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Acceptance, People, Trying

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.27, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Two, People

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• The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

  John le Carre

  Country, Vaccines, Systematic

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

  Frederick Douglass

  Taken, School, Race

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.82

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• Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students and their teachers should at all times be engaged in the process - having ideas, not having ideas, discovering patterns, making conjectures, constructing examples and counterexamples, devising arguments, and critiquing each other's work.

  Paul Lockhart

  Teacher, Math, Ideas

  "A Mathematician's Lament". Book by Paul Lockhart, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Science, Men

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• Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Father, School

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

  George W. Bush

  War, Extremist Groups, America

  www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2006.

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• It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Effort, World

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• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. ... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mean, Numbers, Important

  "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae". Book by Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1801.

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• By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

  Melissa Marr

  Dark, World, Emotion

  Melissa Marr (2011). “Stopping Time and Old Habits”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

  Robert Sheckley

  Heart, Ideas, People

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• I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Perspective, Deeds, Problem

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Track, Scandal, Kind

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• Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing.”

  Charlie Munger

  Order, Discipline, Needs

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• My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!!

  Evan Ross

  Baby, Baby Love, My Baby

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• If youre going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, youve got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world youre living in.

  Scott Rudin

  Years, Two, Three

  "Scott Rudin is on a roll" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. February 08, 2008.

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.

  Freeman Tilden

  Men, Quality, Fields

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• For me and my films I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

  James Wan

  Character, Emotional, Cinema

  "Film Interview: James Wan Talks The Filmmaking & Truth Behind ‘The Conjuring’, ‘Fast 7’ Plans". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. July 19, 2013.

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• As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

  Lev Grossman

  Running, Fear, Teenager

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, Viking Press

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• When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Mouths, Flattery

  Dale Carnegie (0101). “Best of Dale Carnegie Vol-I”, p.34, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Would Be, Profit, Righteous

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