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• Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Essence, Opposites

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• Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

  Harriet Martineau

  Imperfect, Institutions, Inequality

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.120

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Respect, Art, Men

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Hands, Creating

  Errico Malatesta (1965). “Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas”

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• The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.

  William Godwin

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.158

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• Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

  Rich Lowry

  Party, Political, Principles

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• Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

  Dennis Rainey

  Men, Essence, Initiative

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• Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Simple, Reality

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• reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Battle, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Animal, Men

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Special

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

  Ada Leverson

  Pain, Joy, Satisfaction

  Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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• But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Opposites, Advice, Soul

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• Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

  Carl Nielsen

  Long, Giving, Heaven

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• A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo.

  Robert Greene

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

  Susan Stebbing

  Stupid, Opportunity, Men

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• Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Sports, Fun, Rocks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

  Merton Miller

  Successful, Investing, Information

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• You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Voice, Stories, Treasure

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• I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Discovery, Process, Active

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• I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Book, Reading, Creative

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• The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Kids, Doctors

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• The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Seductive, Television, Killers

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• The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

  William Ralph Inge

  Food, Cooking, Verbs

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