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Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Cassandra Clare

Chaos, Always Happy, Ragnor Fell

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

Franz Kafka

Throwing, Abyss, Ifs

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If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.

Stefan Molyneux

Honesty, Thinking, Desire

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Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.

Rajneesh

Hate, Anger, Love Is

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Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

Barack Obama

Inspirational, Issues, Giving

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Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Carl Jung

Being Happy, Meaningful, Two

Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.90, Psychology Press

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There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.

Merce Cunningham

Dance, Mean, Thinking

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I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.

Milton Friedman

Freedom, Believe, Firsts

Interview with Tibor Machan, Joe Cobb, Ralph Raico, reason.com. December 1974.

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Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Henry Ford II

Time, Future, Risk

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Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Barack Obama

Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Character, Men

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If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

Dave Barry

Hilarious, Military, Believe

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Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Teaching, Government, People

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.115, re.press

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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

Bill Gates

Life, Business Success, Self Improvement

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Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

Adrian Lyne

Jealousy, Emotion, Sexuality

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As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

Marshall McLuhan

Knowledge, Age, Use

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When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Peace, Children, Differences

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Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.

Cesar Chavez

Peace, Powerful, Differences

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The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Paul Wellstone

Party, Years, Two

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As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Paul Wellstone

Responsibility, Community, Political

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Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

Shirley Chisholm

Home, Ignorance, Political

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Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Teamwork, Democracy, Society

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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Benjamin Spock

Children, Believe, People

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To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

James A. Baldwin

God, Overwhelming Desire, Joy

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert Otto Gille

Life, Change, Self Esteem

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