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• Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Responsibility, Play

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• My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

  Candace Cameron

  Husband, Fall, Personality

  Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Davis (2015). “Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Numbers, Atmosphere

  "Reading Prose: An Introduction to Critical Study". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 505), 1952.

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• Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him, combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified, vitalized, living belief.

  James E. Talmage

  Life, Believe, Acceptance

  James E. Talmage (2012). “Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

  Rick Cusick

  Marijuana, Passive Resistance, Numbers

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• Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Flow, Entertainment

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, Basic Books

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• A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

  Brian Crozier

  Suicide, Faces, Doe

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• I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Character, Should, Feels

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• Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

  Bradley Whitford

  Mistake, Hero, Despair

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• I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Death, Eye, Looks

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Income, Financial, Owners

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• I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Thinking, Opposites

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• Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Play, Favors, Lasts

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• What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

  Cathy Guisewite

  Winning, Trying, Sitting

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• Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Inspiration, Mind, Doe

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• I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

  John Oliver

  Memories, People, Kind

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

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• Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Peace, Doe, Appeasement

  "Obama’s Peace Assets in the Middle East" by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.

  Grant Morrison

  Reading, Player, Dvds

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• Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

  Rick Owens

  Simple, Hair, Shoes

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• After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Mind, Tranquil

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• Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Grace, Kneeling, Too Much

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.5

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, Hero, People

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• In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

  Johannes Brahms

  Music, Rivers, Water

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