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• I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

  Allison Joseph

  Writing, Self, Judging

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

  Craig Ferguson

  Art, Thinking, Comedy

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• The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Father, Knowing, Greek

  "The Dance Between God and Humanity: Reading the Bible Today as the People of God". Book by Bruce K. Waltke, 2013.

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

  Aimee Bender

  Echoes

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• To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Government, Order

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• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Order, Hateful

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

  Edward Norton

  Drama, Thinking, Trying

  "Q&A: Edward Norton comes to grips with De Niro and The Boss". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 9, 2010.

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• You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

  David McCullough

  Democracy, Knows, Ifs

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 29, 2012

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• The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

  Mary Oliver

  Doe, Rooms, Lectures

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Country, War, Believe

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• It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Ideas, Gossip

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

  Boyd Rice

  Perspective, Empathy, Feelings

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• Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Sea, Two, World

  Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.103, Del Rey

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• Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Character, Cameras

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  World, Observers

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• You are not an observer, you are a participant.

  Nhat Hanh

  Observers

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Alienation, Walkers, Lone

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.36, Granta Books

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• I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

  Bell Hooks

  Practice, Paradise, Students

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• We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hero, Evil

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Moving, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Emotion, Consciousness

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• Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Two, People

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the "demands" of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Agency, News, Movement

  "Occupy Wall Street beta tests a new way of living" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. October 25, 2011.

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• A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

  Howard Rheingold

  Games, Firsts, Kind

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