Participants Quotes - Page 8

• Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.138, AK Press

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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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• Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Character, Men

  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he makes his way to his Bentley. I was never very good at steaming up to someone and engaging them in conversation like that.

  Steve Rushin

  Worry, Way, Bentley

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

  Mitch Joel

  Voice, Add, Becoming

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• Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

  Robert Solow

  Ignorance, Doe, Economics

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• The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company).

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Media, Goal, Social

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• My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

  Henry Ford

  War, Fighting, Civilization

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.165, 谷月社

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• To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

  Robin Lakoff

  Communication, Writing, Mean

  Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2001). “The Language War”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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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• 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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