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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Past, Civilization

  'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) pt. 2

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• Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

  Thomas Merton

  Believe, Men, Ego

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

  Pat Robertson

  Depression, Keys, Becoming

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• My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

  Boy George

  Mother, Running, Father

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• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  A. N. Wilson

  Morning, Lunch, Monsters

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• The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

  Lou Gerstner

  Real, Owners, Involvement

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• Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Happiness, Letting Go, Acceptance

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• ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Religious, Science, Men

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.205

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

  Nancy Reagan

  Knows

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• There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

  Michel Foucault

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

  "Michel Foucault". Book by Didier Eribon translated by Betsy Wind, 1989.

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• I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Intellectual, Curiosity, Intellectual Curiosity

  "Guy Kawasaki: No 'Secret Sauce' for Tech Success". Interview with Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. June 1, 2012.

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• But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

  Amanda Burton

  Drama, School, Sitting

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• There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Real, News, Information

  "Five Mistakes to Avoid When Networking with Twitter" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  Adam Driver

  Girl, Actors, Controversial

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• You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Winning, Issues, People

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• I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

  Terrell Davis

  Mind, Trying, Body

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• I've always been extremely physically active.

  Danai Gurira

  Physically Active

  "Danai Gurira Talks THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, Playing the Action Hero Michonne and Wielding the Sword". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 26, 2012.

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• There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

  Cindy Gallop

  Children, Decision, Realization

  "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Writing, Imagination

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Discovery, New Work

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Basketball, Week, Habit

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

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• Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, People, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Credit, Pillars, Financial

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