Participants Quotes - Page 9

• It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.

  Wangari Maathai

  Spiritual, Community, Done

  Wangari Maathai (2010). “Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World”, p.26, Image

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• Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Powerful, War

  Vladimir Putin “VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich”, ITBM

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• There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Football, Team, Moving

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• The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Men, Media

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.613, Best Books on

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• Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked 'classified' in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

  James Comey

  Numbers, Mail, Information

  Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.

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• Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

  Lewis Mumford

  Democracy, Groups, Citizenship

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• My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

  Henry Ford

  War, Fighting, Civilization

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

  Robert Solow

  Ignorance, Doe, Economics

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• Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one - at least no one other than the participants - is harmed by it.

  Hugo Adam Bedau

  Government, Long, Liberty

  Edwin M. Schur, Hugo Adam Bedau (1974). “Victimless crimes: two sides of a controversy”, Prentice Hall

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• I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

  Greta Gerwig

  Bad Friend, Thinking, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• [The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.

  Wendy Rose

  Father, Land, Roots

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• Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Average, Law, Numbers

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• Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail.

  Hal Finney

  Ideas, Long, Bitcoin

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• Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

  Zainab Salbi

  Negotiation, Has Beens

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Discovery, Self, Dancer

  Judith Lynne Hanna (1988). “Dance and stress: resistance, reduction, and euphoria”, Ams Pr Inc

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• The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

  Ted Leonsis

  Community, Active

  Ted Leonsis (2010). “The Business Of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Work and Life”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Perspective, Facts, Events

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• I feel it's my social responsibility to shine a light on areas that don't get seen. My personal feeling is that it's an artist's responsibility to be engaged with the culture. And when the culture is going through turmoil, I think an artist can't ignore that. I don't feel that every artist has to be politically engaged, but I can't imagine that you can be an active participant of this culture and not in some way reflect that in the work you are creating.

  Lynn Nottage

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company).

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Media, Goal, Social

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• Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Political, Process

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.229, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

  Zoe Saldana

  Bed, Wake Up, Moments

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• A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.

  Morton Blackwell

  Healthy, Movement, Flow

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• To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

  Robin Lakoff

  Communication, Writing, Mean

  Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2001). “The Language War”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

  Mark Twight

  Spectators

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.157, The Mountaineers Books

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• Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

  Clay Shirky

  Average, Law, Definitions

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.114, Penguin UK

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