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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Painting, Planes

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

  Charles Edison

  Party, Organization, Issues

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• Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

  Mary Daly

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Father, Imagination, World

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• To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

  Jean Piaget

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• You are not an active creator of the film.

  Sydney Pollack

  Film, Creator

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• I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.797, Best Books on

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• A mind too active is no mind at all.

  Theodore Roethke

  Intelligence, Intuition, Mind

  Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz (1966). “The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems”

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• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Boredom, Capable

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

  Bo Jackson

  Soccer, Baseball, Football

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• We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

  Mitchell Baker

  Thinking, People, Community

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

  Kiana Tom

  Sports, Stay Strong, Play

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• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Party, Democrat, My Future

  "Farewell, Sarajevo". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

  Karen Duffy

  Eye, Feet, Feelings

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

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• Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

  Cory Doctorow

  Crooks, Calling, Want

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• It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

  Crystal Eastman

  Lying, Together, Lambs

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

  Amartya Sen

  College, Community, Students

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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

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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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• In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Dancing, Different

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• All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Memories, Discovery

  Mortimer J. Adler (1998). “Paideia Proposal”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Struggle, Support

  Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau, July 1936.

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