“ Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. ”
- Robin Morgan- Copy
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“ Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ”
- Dorothy Thompson- Copy
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“ The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity — a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. ”
- Christopher Isherwood- Copy
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“ Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and …I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks. ”
- Nicole Kidman- Copy
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“ He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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“ As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. ”
- Bebe Moore Campbell- Copy
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“ Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ”
- James Humes- Copy
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“ Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly… ”
- Eric Lustbader- Copy
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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… ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated. ”
- Dave Eggers- Copy
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“ The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe… ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them… ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.". ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation… ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one — an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in… ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
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“ To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful… ”
- Julia Cameron- Copy
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“ We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion. ”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes- Copy
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“ The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ”
- Arthur J. Goldberg- Copy
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“ I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the very early period, because I recognized that the Palestinians weren't going to go away, and they weren't going to remain passive. And all of these predictions were correct… ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
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