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• Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

  Clara Shih

  Pages, Fortune, Company

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• A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.

  Joe Meno

  Dream, Memories, Book

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• I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Mind, Important

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

  Claude Nicollier

  Dad, Years, Switzerland

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• I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

  Al Seckel

  Meaningful, Impact, Counter Culture

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Men, Moral

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.354

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• The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

  Robert Updegraff

  Successful, Unfinished Business, Might

  Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

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• Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation Practice, Sitting Still

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• If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Race, Car, Skateboarding

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I don't really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I'm not stuck all the time hanging out.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Girl, Fun, Thinking

  "Exclusive! Check Out Ryan Sheckler’s ‘Double Take’ Vid — and His Beef With The Situation!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. December 2, 2010.

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• In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Government, Towns, States

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• I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

  Philemon

  Understanding, May, Praying

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• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Expectations, Waiting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.637

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• I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  Edmund Burke

  Effort, Election, Proportion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2600, Delphi Classics

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• NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.

  Horace Mann

  Lying, Errors, Mind

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.69

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• Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.

  John Ruskin

  Girl, Night, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 122, 1895.

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• All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Men, Numbers

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 8, 1792.

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• The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.

  Joseph Kanon

  Venice, Political, Steps

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• Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.

  Peter Galison

  Real, Book, Apology

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• I'm a big foodie, I do a lot of yoga - I love yoga - I love running... I just enjoy being really active, and traveling.

  Jane Chen

  Running, Yoga, Being Real

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• When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

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• In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

  George Santayana

  Justice, Heaven, World

  "Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" by George Santayana, (p. 54), 1900.

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• I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

  Arjun Rampal

  Athlete, Used, Ran

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• The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

  Aesop

  Delay

  Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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