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• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

  Danny Glover

  Summer, School, Voters

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

  Jon Secada

  Strong, Real, Singing

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• No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

  James F. Cooper

  Reality, Law, Long

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• When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

  Prince Andrew

  War, Two, Issues

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

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• I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

  Susie Bright

  Feminist, Feminism, Liberation

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• Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

  Victoria Pratt

  Fighting, Play, Guy

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• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Power, Agriculture

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• Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

  William Godwin

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Desire

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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• I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

  Margot Kidder

  Movement, Stills

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

  Libby Houston

  Plato, Land, Radio

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• I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.4, City Lights Books

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• When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

  Joan Blades

  Responsibility, Support, Political

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

  Kathleen Turner

  Politics, Causes, Helping

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• Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Flying, Enthusiasm

  "The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen".

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• As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

  Lee Krasner

  Artist, Abstract

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• But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Design, Contemplation, Program

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

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• I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

  George Takei

  Blessed, Careers, Busybodies

  "The East West Enterprise". Interview with Kristin Friedrich, www.ladowntownnews.com. October 24, 2005.

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• Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Development, Fields

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• In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

  John McTiernan

  Narrators, Cameras, Thrillers

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• Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

  Lee Haney

  Sports, Children, Kids

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• I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Gun, Organization, Issues

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• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

  Karl Rahner

  Reality, Grace, Orientation

  "Meditations on the Sacraments". Book by Karl Rahner, Introduction, p. xi, 1977.

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• It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dust, Joy, Sorrow

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Support, Developing Countries

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• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  Kary Mullis

  Creativity, Creative, Desire

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