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• The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Champion, Energy

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.

  Victor Serge

  Lying, Struggle, Men

  Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.374, University of Iowa Press

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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  Pat Robertson

  Political, Political Involvement, Direct

  "Pat Robertson: Mitt Romney an 'Outstanding Christian'" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2011.

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• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Media, America

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• We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Health, School

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• The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Should Have, America

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

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

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• I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Self, Somewhere Else

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.129, Three Rivers Press

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• The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

  John Lewis

  Rights, Movement, Saws

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• I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

  Rashida Jones

  Political, Chocolate, Together

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• A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

  Mark Haddon

  Real, Drama, People

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• Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

  Barbara Bush

  Time, Believe, Ideas

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

  Rick Ross

  Education, Effort, Groups

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• Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Race, Age, Income

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• I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Interesting, Important, Stranger

  "The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje " by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how desperately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.

  Larry Crabb

  Kindness, Long, Feelings

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• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Opportunity, People

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press

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• They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Rapids, Turnover

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• Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD

  Dan B. Allender

  Hands, Discipline, Decision

  Dan B. Allender (2009). “To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future”, p.186, WaterBrook

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• My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

  Timothy Leary

  Jobs, School, Mean

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Dream, Pain, Taken

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

  Jose Saramago

  Book, Writing, Who I Am

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

  Eric Schmidt

  Apples, President, Vices

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• I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

  Jose Saramago

  Political, Kind, Imagine

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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