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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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• I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Men, Moral

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

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• If you are obsessively active, please at least pause to ask yourself why and to listen for the answer from the still, quiet voice alive and well within you. I don't have an answer for the hurry sickness afflicting our society and our souls. But I do trust that the how-to-stop-it is within you, and you can change your pace if you want to.

  Sue Thoele

  Quiet Voice, Soul, Pace

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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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• Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

  Ivan Illich

  Turkeys, Kicking It, Numbers

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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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• Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Government, Land

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

  Leni Zumas

  Moving, Space, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

  Ben Sollee

  Musician, Roles, Care

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• I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. [This] resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Issues, Overcoming

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• I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body. To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab. Movement is vital. Whether it's running, cross training, hiking with the dogs, or walking the streets of New York, I am constantly active.

  Theo Rossi

  Running, Dog, New York

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her credit that she was interested in this, let me say. But once again, I'm not sure the extent to which Roosevelt - I guess he did use her really, particularly on the civil rights front. No question about it, because she was well identified out there, and brought a good many blacks into the Administration, into the White House, into his presence and so on.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Rights, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.

  Alice McDermott

  Speaks Out, Interesting, Parent

  "Alice McDermott invokes a voice little heard in life or literature for 'Someone'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

  Josh Earnest

  Parent, Democracy, Voters

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• I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Tom Hiddleston talks John le Carré's The Night Manager". Interview with Ian Nathan, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Mean, Self, Knowing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.

  John Cariani

  Play, Actresses, Rich

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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• I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, People, Grandparent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.

  Eyvind Kang

  Children, Eye, Light

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

  Max Tundra

  Nice, Albums, Max

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So when you're in REM sleep, your brain is very active, our body is quiet, but your brain is really processing a lot of things, a lot of emotions; we dream the most in REM sleep. And then you go back down in the deep stages, and so on and so forth.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, Sleep, Brain

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When you're in the more deeper stages of sleep - REM sleep, your body is quiet, but your mind is actually very active. So it's a time when your body and your brain is restoring itself. It's repairing any cell damage that happened during the day, it's really repairing, like I said, repairing your body, but also helps with digestion, helps with memory.

  Shelby Harris

  Memories, Sleep, Cells

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sleep paralysis is something that is actually very common. Many people have it, I've had it myself. And what happens is, when you're in that REM stage of sleep, your brain is very active. You're dreaming your most during that stage, you're mind, your eyes are moving, there's a lot going on. It's like fireworks going on in your brain.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, Moving, Sleep

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Two, Force

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

  Mitch Joel

  Voice, Add, Becoming

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