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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

David Bohm

People, Development, Common

David Bohm (2006). “Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm”, p.175, Routledge

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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Hjalmar Branting

League, Assembly, Century

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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Al Franken

Judging, Hearing, Firsts

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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

Jennifer Granholm

Believe, Political, Advice

"Occupy a Wing of the Democratic Party" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Michael Haneke

Thinking, Giving, Watches

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No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Struggle, Men, Pakistan

Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Games, Generations, London

"After Olympic success, now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Aung San Suu Kyi

People, Used, Frightened

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If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Stacy London

Years, Clothes, Personality

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Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

John Malkovich

Dream, Acting, Actors

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If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography, Party, Artist

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

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I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Erin Morgenstern

Writing, Thinking, Challenges

"Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

Viggo Mortensen

Book, Writing, Artist

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I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

Michael Nutter

Believe, Men, Thinking

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Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

Kevin O'Leary

Names, People, Stones

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When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

M. Scott Peck

Agony, Community, Joy

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In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.

Ken Wilber

Real, Self Esteem, Ego

Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science, Men, Soul

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My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

Tim Gunn

Hurt, College, Honest

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Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

Leonard Nimoy

Jealous, Thinking, Forgiving

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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

War, Stopping, Way

"Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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Life is for participating, not for spectating.

Kathrine Switzer

Marathon, Life Is

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When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future.

Muhammad Yunus

Strong, Foundation, Tiny Things

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To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

Rajneesh

Creativity, Creative, Worship

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I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.

Brand Blanshard

Science, Thinking, Discovery

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