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• We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.

  Tim Brown

  Creativity, Ideas, Impact

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• Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

  Narendra Modi

  People, India, Development

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• Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Long, Mind

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• Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowering, Growth, India

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• Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Long, Vision

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• Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.

  Pierre Hadot

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Exercise

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 157), 2001.

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• The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

  Chris Burden

  Stress, Cities, Car

  "Metropolis II: A Kinetic Sculpture That Circulates 100,000 Miniature Cars Every Hour", www.thisiscolossal.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Attitude, Children, Gay

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Territory, Matter

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Mirrors, Objectivity

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• I always stay active, even if Im on vacation.

  Erin Heatherton

  Vacation, Ifs

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• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Effort, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Political Ideals”, p.16, Bertrand Russell

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• Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.

  Jo Walton

  Mean, Fighting, Different

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• When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

  Robert Lembke

  Peace, War, Moving

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• We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.

  Steve Kerr

  Nba Championships, Different, Championship

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• We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brother, Book, Adventure

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.54, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?

  Dave Matthews

  Children, Kindness, Military

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

  Michael Dell

  Data, Example, Information

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I don't believe in misconceptions in art and films. There are always so many different ways to relate to or understand a film. I love films that give a great amount of space to the audience to explore or be active with what the film is saying.

  Claudia Llosa

  Art, Believe, Space

  "Tribeca 2015 Women Directors: Meet Claudia Llosa – ‘Aloft’". Interview with Tory Kamen, www.indiewire.com. April 17, 2015.

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• I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, School, Physically Active

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

  Stephen King

  Light, Imagination, Childhood

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.

  Steven Pressfield

  Powerful, Intelligent, Enemy

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.50, Black Irish Books

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• If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

  Reid Hoffman

  Jobs, People, Get Better

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• In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

  Amy Carter

  Debutantes, Position

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• The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Character, Simple

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