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• None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.

  Hannah

  Past, Understanding, Atrocities

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• Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.

  Tara Parker-Pope

  Exercise, Virginia, Next

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• We are all participants in the marvelous.

  James Broughton

  Joyfulness, Marvelous

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• We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Community, Guidance, Communion

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• 'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Wall, Men, Glasses

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• Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

  Clay Shirky

  Identity, Groups, Cooperating

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• When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.

  Greg Graffin

  People, Creative, Feelings

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• In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Knowledge, Reality

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Action, Type

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Individual, Smarter

  Robert L. Bartley (1992). “The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again”, Free Press

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• I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

  Gary Gygax

  Play, Groups, Links

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• It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

  Douglas Pagels

  Cheer, Positive Thinking, Want

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• On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

  Anthony Powell

  Life, Everyday, Farce

  Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

  Pierre Daninos

  Names, Achievement, Feelings

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• The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.

  Ben Macintyre

  Book, Men, Games

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• There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Moral, Ifs

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Doctrine, Ambiguity, Constructive

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• What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, Self, Temptation

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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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• Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.

  Peter Stafford

  Sweet, Cactus, Peyote

  Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing

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• Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.

  Michael R. Taylor

  Zero, Safety, Risk

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• If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

  Patricia Hampl

  Sports, Book, Reading

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• Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'

  Wendell Berry

  Drama, Thinking, Agriculture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.145, Counterpoint Press

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• Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

  Ari Shapiro

  Country, Monday, Heart

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• In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.

  John C. Bogle

  Winning, Thinking, Vegas

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