Participation Quotes - Page 6

• No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

  Pope Francis

  Community, Individual, Isolated

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

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• The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Encounters, World

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It is multidimensional in scope, requiring meaningful participation of people at all levels.

  Widad Akrawi

  Meaningful, People, Elements

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• That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

  Rollo May

  Attitude, Acceptance, Men

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• I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

  Diablo Cody

  Self, Ambitious, Flukes

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

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• . . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, Attitude, Light

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

  Bob Hawke

  War, Home, Australia

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

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• Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The UN must then, dare to change in order to improve. In Mexico, we firmly believe that the UN has all the powers to be more daring and to renovate itself.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Believe, Order, Mexico

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• In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Women, Responsibility

  "The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover". Book by Herbert Hoover, 1929.

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• Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians. These parallel global warmings - observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth - can only be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance.

  Khabibullo Abdusamatov

  Long, Mars, Earth

  "Look to Mars for the truth on global warming". Lawrence Solomon, National Post, January 26, 2007.

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• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Angel, Men, Knowledge And Wisdom

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.539

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• More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

  Michael K. Powell

  Jobs, Technology, Media

  "Broadband Internet Keeps The American Dream Alive & Accessible" by Michael K. Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Reading, Air

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• The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Niqab, Veils, Body

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• We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

  Pope Pius XI

  Girl, Dresses, Modesty

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• Listen to what your higher wisdom has to say about how you can deepen your participation in the global shift-through personal healing, changing your worldview, or finding ways to help others and the environment. This is how you can both heal yourself and help humanity. At their deepest level, the two are joined and ready to awaken to a new world.

  Edmund Bourne

  Healing, Helping Others, Two

  Edmund Bourne (2009). “Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity”, p.325, New Harbinger Publications

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• The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power.

  Friedrich Dessauer

  Science, Law, Work Out

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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes. It speaks of a fundamental placement in relation to the work, that of a voyager in the world coming upon a strange object. The reader reconstitutes the work by his active participation, by approaching the object, tapping it, shaking it, holding it to his ear to hear the roaring within. It is characteristic of the object that it does not declare itself all at once, in a rush of pleasant naïveté.

  Donald Barthelme

  Eye, Men, Vets

  "After Joyce (1964)". "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 4, 1997.

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• Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Mean, Order, Harmony

  Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.151, AK Press

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• God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Men, Creating

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.366, David R. Godine Publisher

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• So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Opportunity, United States

  "John Kerry and Bashar al-Assad dined in Damascus" by Harriet Alexander, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 3, 2013.

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• As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Technology, Hair, Korea

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

  William Wycherley

  Sympathy, Pain, Grief

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• We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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