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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Revolutionary

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• I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Sunday

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• It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

  Benjamin Tucker

  War, Passive Resistance, Peaceful

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• The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

  Richard Schickel

  Lying, Exercise, Media

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• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Degrees, Intimacy

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

  George Sweeting

  Attitude, Successful, Discipline

  George Sweeting (2008). “The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Power, Acquiescence, News

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.108, City Lights Books

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• Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Teacher, Teaching, Simple

  Linda Darling-Hammond (1997). “The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work”, Jossey-Bass

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• In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Educational

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

  Anton Yelchin

  Thinking, Passive Aggressive, Bother

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• The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is legible on the building’s exterior.

  Jeanne Gang

  Interesting, Bows, Building

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• Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too difficult to answer quickly--e.g., 'What's Congress up to?' or 'You ever learn any cool science?' When you ask the question, don't make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).

  Eugene Mirman

  Moving, Eye, Waiting

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• Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Envy, Enemy

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2008). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution”, p.68, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

  Guy P. Harrison

  Stupidity, Embrace, Warm

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• I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

  Paul Mooney

  Passionate, Naive

  "Funny Paul Mooney was born a comic" by Gregory Lewis, www.sfgate.com. October 6, 1995.

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• Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.

  Russell Brand

  Talking, People, Population

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• I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Thinking, Issues

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

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• In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Mind, Utterance

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• I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Believe, Intelligent

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• Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Acceptance, Feelings, Doe

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Love Is, Soul, States

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 25, 2015

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• Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself with more advanced games.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Attitude, Moving, Games

  "Nintendo’s Miyamoto Talks Passive Attitude of Casual Gamers, it’s 'a Pathetic Thing'" by Joey Davidson, www.technobuffalo.com. August 31, 2014.

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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, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

  Woody Allen

  Angel, Men, Rights

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• Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Mean, Holiday, Men

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