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• The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

  Sonny Barger

  Waking Life, Doe, Explanation

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Oct 24, 2015

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• I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

  Robin McGraw

  Spectators, Active

  Robin McGraw (2007). “Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My birth experience is not right for everyone, but it was so right for me. I am changed because of that experience, i saw my power and I felt my power, and it's gotten me through a lot of hardship. I tell myself that if i could get through that, I can get through anything. I think women are losing an opportunity by not aspiring to have births in which they are active participants.

  Ricki Lake

  Opportunity, Thinking, Hardship

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• Engagement is shaped by the interpretation of its intentions. In order for social media to mutually benefit you and your customers, you must engage them in meaningful and advantageous conversations, empowering them as true participants in your marketing and service efforts.

  Brian Solis

  Meaningful, Media, Order

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• I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather than being a spectator to it and if you do that, if you participate in the world, in your community, your school, your company, or your country, whatever.. they you will be useful and hopefully leave the planet a little better.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Country, Encouragement

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• I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

  George Soros

  Expectations, Study, Theory

  George Soros' Remarks at the Festival of Economics, www.georgesoros.com. June 2, 2012.

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• The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Moving, Thinking

  "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

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• But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

  James Lee Burke

  War, Book, Details

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• Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  "One Man’s View". Interview, chomsky.info. May, 1973.

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• There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.

  Werner Herzog

  Civilization, Vehemence, Culture

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• Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician.  It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants.  Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion, he or she becomes more attuned to God.

  Richard Smoley

  Magic, Energy, Attention

  Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney (2012). “Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions”, p.53, Quest Books

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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
  chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Games, Play

  1965 In Cold Blood, ch.4.

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• I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

  Edward T. Hall

  Jobs, Real, Years

  "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.

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• People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• . . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read. ...Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, Emotional, Names

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• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  Ed Murray

  Character, Views, Numbers

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• The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

  Stephen King

  Evil, Battle, Fascinating

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• The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks.

  William J. Bernstein

  Baby, Way, Faces

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• Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

  Diane Ravitch

  Decision, Understanding, Passive

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.238, Basic Books

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• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  Sam Raimi

  Imagination, Monsters, Stories

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• In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

  Harold Geneen

  Ideas, Momentum, Spontaneous

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• Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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• Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.

  Ted Loder

  Honesty, Exercise, Giving

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