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• I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

  Russell Johnson

  Mit, Coconuts, Radio

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• After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.

  Sophie Monk

  Baby, Eggs, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

  Edmund Burke

  Matter, Duty, Obligation

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

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• Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

  Solon

  Party, Men, Law

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• By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?

  Thucydides

  War, Mean, Army

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.453, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but they are very careful to avoid any engagement in war, they are basically a peaceful country, which gives them another advantage over the United States when we are much more inclined to go to war for various reasons.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, War

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

  Guido Molinari

  May, Painting, Epistemology

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• The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Encounters, Ifs

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• The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Imagination, Fields

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.226, Courier Corporation

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• I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Appreciation, Thinking, Effort

  "Autobiographical Notes of Charles Hughes". Book edited by D. J. Danelski and J. S. Tulchin, 1973.

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• Death cancels all engagements.

  Max Beerbohm

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.119, The Floating Press

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• The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Rights, Doors

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Hazards, Earth, Ridiculous

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.

  Julian Assange

  Media, People, Brave

  "A Conversation With Julian Assange". Interview with John Cook, gawker.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Party, Political, Temperature

  "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

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• Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

  Steven Whitney

  Meditation, Painting, Form

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• There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

  Jorg Immendorff

  Goal, Different, Path

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• There must be engagement: there must be protest.

  B. W. Powe

  Protest

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

  Allan Donald

  Years, Credit, Pleasure

  "Sachin Tendulkar: Quotable Quotes on the Batting Legend". www.khaleejtimes.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

  David Hoffman

  Talking, Long, Care

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth.

  Simone Campbell

  Pain, Real, World

  "Pope Francis Brings 'New Gifts' to the Future of the Catholic Church". Interview with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  Miroslav Volf

  Prayer, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fun, Party, Home

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Struggle, Long

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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