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• Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Attention, Grows

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.51, Penguin

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• A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Life Is, Unending

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.151, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Suffering, Three

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• Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Husband, Talking, People

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Family, Power, Men

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

  Cory Booker

  Attitude, Kindness, Hate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 11, 2010

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• I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

  Jack Welch

  People, Excellence, Asking

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

  Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

  Wall, Real, Cities

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• Love is one of my main inspirations.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Inspiration, Love Is

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• If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

  Alain Badiou

  Love Is, Two, People

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Attitude, War, America

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

  David Antin

  Believe, Thinking, Focus

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• It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Pain, Bystanders, Speak No Evil

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.7, Basic Books

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• Went up from my feet to my head,
  With little chills after it stealing-
  And my hands got as numb as the dead.
  A moment, and then it was over:
  The diamond blazed up in my eyes,
  And I saw in the face of my lover
  A questioning, strange surprise.
  Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers,
  That heavy with fragrance bloomed near,
  But I didn't feel natural for hours;
  It was odd now, wasn't it, dear?
  Write soon to your fortunate Clara
  Who has carried the prize away,
  And say you'll come on when I marry;
  I think it will happen in May.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Flower, Eye, Writing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Believe, Rights, Should Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.

  Britney Spears

  Sex, Waiting, Want

  "Britney: 'I want to keep a personal life'". www.cnn.com. May 25, 2001.

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• Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Self, Creating, Engaged

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• The greatest pleasure in life is love.

  William Temple

  Sweet, Life Is, Pleasure

  Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309

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• Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, School, Heterosexuality

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• Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

  John Constable

  Art, Poetry, Understanding

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• When people - everyday people who watch the coverage on CNN of Anita Sarkeesian having to cancel a speaking engagement due to death threats - think of “gamers,” they are going to think of you, and that irritates me. It enrages me. I want to punch down a wall, and I like my walls. They're nicely painted.

  Chris Kluwe

  Wall, Thinking, Cnn

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• Oneness is the perfect expansion
  Of our inner reality.
  Let our hearts oneness only increase
  To make us feel
  That we belong to a universal world ? family,
  And this world ? family
  Is a fulfilled Dream of God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Dream, Heart, Reality

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• Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
  For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
  And stand together yet not too near together:
  For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
  And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• God made the world with a heart full of love,
  Then He looked down from Heaven above,
  And saw that we all need a helping hand,
  Someone to share with, who'll understand.
  He made special people to see us through
  The glad times and the sad times, too;
  A person on whom we can always depend,
  Someone we can call a friend.
  God made friends so we'll carry a part
  Of His perfect love in all our hearts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Special People

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