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• Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

  Vivian Gornick

  Ongoing, World, Psychological

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.28, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.

  Susan Forward

  Lying, Love You, Passion

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• The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

  Edward Gibbon

  Horse, Numbers, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.239

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• It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Exercise, Soul

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

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• Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.

  Milton William Cooper

  Men, Hands, Wonderful

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• Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.

  Beth Moore

  Enemy, Tongue, Threat

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.163, B&H Publishing Group

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• The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Inspiring, Mother, Women

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• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Outcomes, Wealth, Pleasure

  "How to be happy though rich or poor". Preface by Robert Baden-Powell to his book "Rovering to Success" (1922), 1930.

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Teenager, Passion, Home

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• Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Agitation, Passive, Needed

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• When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Asana, Posture

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  Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

  John Dewey

  Affair, Process, Constructive

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong, Twilight, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Information, Gone

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• Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love Is, Faithful, Prudent

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• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Earning It, Effectiveness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

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• Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Garden, Religion, Spirit

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• Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Facts, Serious, Way

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• ...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Exercise, Government, Play

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.93, Best Books on

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• Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

  Bradley Whitford

  Mistake, Hero, Despair

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Light, Circles, Oval

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Animal, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

  William Gibson

  Lying, Writing, Vanity

  William Gibson @GreatDismal, twitter.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Swimming, Empty Life

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