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• Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Investing, Want, Next

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• The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Mean, Doe, Investing

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• Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

  David F. Swensen

  Investing, Individual, Should

  "Yale Gets Educated In Retirement Plans" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2016.

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• ... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!

  Merton Miller

  Mean, Majority, Investing

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• The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mistake, Loss, Effort

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Attitude, Women, Acceptance

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• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Passive Voice, Nouns, Adjectives

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, Penny Lee (2012). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.113, MIT Press

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• You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option is to leave because you're emotions get so entangled with these manipulative people that staying there you're just helpless because they're good at passive aggressive games and you're not, so you have to leave.

  Robert Greene

  Games, People, Boss

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, People, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Titles

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• With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Thinking, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.423, Cambridge University Press

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• Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Yesterday, Creative, Today

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• I long to create something
  that can't be used to keep us passive:
  I want to write
  a script about plumbing, how every pipe
  is joined
  to every other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knowledge, Writing, Long

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.405, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.

  Marcel Proust

  Song, Heart, Law

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• A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Acceptance, Agreement, Rivers

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• ...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Children, Struggle, Mean

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• ...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Grief, Mind, Chance

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• Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

  Maureen Murdock

  Awareness, Focused

  Maureen Murdock (1990). “The Heroine's Journey”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.

  Walter Schloss

  People, Trying, Investing

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• This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

  Alan Greenspan

  People, Abnormal, May

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• Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Writing, Flow

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

  William Ellery Channing

  Angel, Men, Rights

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.259

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• You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Destiny, Car, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.

  Marge Piercy

  Kids, People, Type

  "Fighting Words". Interview with Johnette Rodriguez, margepiercy.com. September 27, 2002.

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