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• The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Names, Tea

  Morning Joe, March 31, 2010.

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• War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

  Michael Badnarik

  War, Needs, Fewer

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• However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Historical, Understanding, May

  William Ernest Hocking (1916). “The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion”

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• Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants.

  Susan Dunlap

  Passion, Attractive, Found

  Susan Dunlap (1993). “Death and Taxes”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Thinking, Print Media

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• The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Credit, Pillars, Financial

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• Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

  Selma James

  Revolution, Telling The Truth, Rebellious

  Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr

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• I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

  Danny Bonaduce

  School, Acting, Bumps

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• I wish I could write a book that will be read for as long as our civilization lasts. I would value it much more highly than any business success if I could contribute to an understanding of the world in which we live or, better yet, if I could help to preserve the economic and political system that has allowed me to flourish as a participant.

  George Soros

  Book, Writing, Civilization

  "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros". Book by Mark Tier, 2006.

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• The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

  Ben Bernanke

  Chance, Guidance, Inference

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• Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Numbers, Pipeline

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• I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

  Moondog

  Life, Society, Musician

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• Who creates a thing is not as important as what the thing is. Who created baseball? Who created basketball? Who created the space program? Who created - we could go on and on. We could argue about who created something. We all are participants in it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Basketball, Baseball, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

  Alan Greenspan

  Running, Financial, Finance

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• As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

  George Soros

  Action, Financial, Justified

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.139, PublicAffairs

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• The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees

  Veronika Skvortsova

  Past, Government, Years

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• Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the distance one often feels when looking at landscape photographs... The longer I work, the more important it is to me to make photographs that tell my story as a participant, and not just an observer of the land.

  Mark Klett

  Distance, Land, Wish

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• ... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

  Ezra Stoller

  Photography, Art, Typewriters

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• Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.

  Viola Davis

  Daughter, Order, Knowing

  "EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis Says Education Saved Her Life, Talks Won't Back Down Impact". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Strong, Destiny, Thinking

  "Mackenzie Davis" by John Ortved, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2014.

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• If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.

  Dana Goldstein

  Children, School, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We teach what we have to learn. It's been an extraordinary journey that I couldn't have done with not only the research participants but the community, the tribe that we've built of people who are also on this journey.

  Brené Brown

  Journey, People, Community

  "Brené Brown to Deliver Opening Keynote at EWlive14". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, blog.emergingwomen.com. July 1, 2014.

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• There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Jewish Tradition, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

  Michael Sandel

  Exercise, Confusing, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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