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• Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Receiving, Sacred, Revelations

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• The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

  William Ames

  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

  Ian Holm

  Way, Testicles, Sentences

  "Fictional character: Dr. Ernesto Morales". "The Treatment", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Finals, Judgment, Passing

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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• Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Sports, War, Class

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• Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Girl, Teacher

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.106, Routledge

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• All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

  Mary Travers

  Struggle, Silent, Social

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• I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

  Veronica Roth

  Intelligent, Brave, Peaceful

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• I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Agitation, Needed, Active

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• What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Strong, Differences

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• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Outcomes, Wealth, Pleasure

  "How to be happy though rich or poor". Preface by Robert Baden-Powell to his book "Rovering to Success" (1922), 1930.

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• Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Graduation, Hero, Leader

  Bradley Whitford's Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin-Madison in in Madison, Wisconsin, news.wisc.edu. May 15, 2004.

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• The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

  William Osler

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

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• Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Adversity, Soul, Promise

  Jerry Bridges, Gerald Bridges, Jack Kuhatschek (1989). “You Can Trust God”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Exercise, Opposites

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

  William Blake

  Shadow, Desire, Degrees

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.

  Tim Wise

  Osmosis, Class, White

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• Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Kids, Cutting

  Sidney Poitier (2009). “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

  Stefan Zweig

  Flower, Book, Men

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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• Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

  Gary Paulsen

  Song, Stupid, Book

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Dirty, Mean, Men

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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• Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Strong, Queens, Mean

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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