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• Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Dream, Love Is

  Khalil Gibran, “Love Is A Magic Ray”

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• Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

  James A Bellanca

  Educational, Teaching, Strategic

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• Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

  Brian Solis

  Empathy, Marketing, Helpful

  FaceBook post by Brian Solis from Dec 27, 2014

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• A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Mean, What Matters

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Survival, Culture, Problem

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• In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

  Donna Tartt

  Order, Long, Work Out

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• Just because youre of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  Famke Janssen

  Sex, Differences, Want

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• There is no marriage without engagement

  Evan Wolfson

  Evan Wolfson (2007). “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

  Thomas More

  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Reflection, Feminist

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Adventure, Hands, Bipolar

  "Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia".

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• Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, Commitment, Desire

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Party, Alps, Centre

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• As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Behavior, Anti Semitic, Accused

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Want, Married

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• It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Arguing, Destruction, Polemics

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.263, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

  Seth Godin

  Leadership, People, Blame

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• Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

  Andrew Hogue

  Real, Return, Each Day

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• But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Organization, Political

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• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

  James Madison

  Mean, Hands, Promise

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.37, University of Virginia Press

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• Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Discovery, Accomplishment, Mind

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, People, Height

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• Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Assessment, Church

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