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• That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

  Warren Zevon

  Business, Thinking, Wish

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• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Military, Two Sides, Preparation

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Fighting, Tough, Economy

  "Emerging Ally: President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. July 18, 2002.

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• No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

  Christopher Bond

  Thinking, Needs, Force

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• My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Parent, Theatre

  "Oral history interview with Josef Albers". Interview with Sevim Fesci, New Haven, Connecticut, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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• The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Men, Fundraising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America

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• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  Cameron Diaz

  Important, World, Causes

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• I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thankfulness, Christ, Obedience

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• Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

  Samuel Smiles

  Responsibility, Men, Agents

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

  Richard Courant

  Philosophy, Science, Sensual

  "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  Otto Schily

  Hate, Play, Roles

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• I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

  Richard Ernst

  Teaching, Research, Management

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• The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

  Steve Burns

  Children, Ideas, Watches

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• I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Strong, Thinking, President

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• No one has developed active tuberculosis.

  Michael York

  Tuberculosis

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• Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

  Rick Perry

  Democracy, Function, Citizenry

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• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

  Gore Vidal

  Hygiene, Literature, World

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections upon a sinking ship”

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• I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Political, Actors, World

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• I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

  Toni Braxton

  Roles, Looks, Imaging

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

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• Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

  Thales

  Thinking, Stronger, Submit

  "Business Management Controls: A Guide". P. 55. Book by John Kyriazoglou, 2012.

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• Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

  Jim Rogers

  Years, Investing, Active Management

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• Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

  Christopher Dodd

  Senior, Independent, Years

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• I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

  Rene Cassin

  Century, Capacity, Involvement

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• The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Hero, Glowing, Differences

  Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press

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• The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Beauty, Taken, Past

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