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• I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

  Rollo May

  Healing, Process, Cures

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Creating, Stories

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• Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and exact its dues. If we go to that realm consciously, it is by our inner work: our prayers, meditations, dream work, ceremonies, and Active Imagination. If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Dream, Prayer, Imagination

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• Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Understanding, Used, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.310, Grove Press

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• Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Political, Democracy

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.33, Seven Stories Press

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• In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Military, Japan, Years

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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

  Lee Byung-hun

  Summer, Exercise, Golf

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

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• So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

  Peter Andre

  Orange, Hands, People

  "Peter Andre strips to talk Fake Bake but does this kind of man-tanning turn you on or off?". Interview with Gilly Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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• God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  God, Christian, Faithful

  Anne Graham Lotz (2013). “Fixing My Eyes on Jesus: Daily Moments in His Word”, Zondervan

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• You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Contemplative Life, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perseverance, Waiting, Perseverence

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• All genuine learning is active, not passive.

  Mortimer Adler

  Leadership, Sports, Genuine

  Mortimer Adler (2000). “How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization”, p.198, Open Court

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• The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

  Thomas Paine

  Land, Lazy, Males

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.129

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• We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Iran, Revolution, Problem

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Work Out, Personality, Brain

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• I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.

  Rand Paul

  Technology, Drones, Liquor Stores

  "Drone warfare politics change in Washington". "All In with Chris Hayes", www.nbcnews.com. April 24, 2013.

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

  John Winthrop

  Men, Tongue, Nimble

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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

  Marvin Olasky

  Tired, Organization, Effort

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• There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

  E. P. Thompson

  Mind, East, West

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• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

  Charles James

  Real, Heart, Men

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• I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Sports, Swimming, Littles

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto Talks Wii Fit" by Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

  Fred Rogers

  Struggle, Caring, Love Is

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.21, Penguin

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