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• most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

  Randall Jarrell

  War, Fighting, Years

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poetry in War and Peace" (p. 129), 1980.

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• Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Rain, Mean, Sunshine

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• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  Daniel Gillies

  Behavior, Conventions, Aggression

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

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• How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Thinking, Intelligent

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

  Bill Ayers

  Teaching, Issues, Justice

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• TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Occupation, Tvs, Mindless

  "Living With a True Mother". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Practice, Effort

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• The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Feelings

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• The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

  Christian Smith

  Opposites, Purpose, Lame

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• I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Church, Use

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• Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

  Nick Bilton

  Baseball, Thinking, Hands

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• Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Party, Europe

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example.

  Judith Orloff

  People, Feelings, Example

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Media, Cynical, Subjectivity

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

  Deepak Chopra

  Action, Awareness, Inaction

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• Come from a place of love. Love isn't passive or shy. It's actually the most powerful energy in the universe.

  Doreen Virtue

  Powerful, Love Is, Energy

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• I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

  Annie Lennox

  Barbie Dolls, Want, Entertainers

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• I think it's dangerous to look at every Muslim woman the same and to assume that every experience within the religion is the same, meaning that there are going to be strong and assertive women that are Muslim. There's going to be a more passive woman who just so happens to be a Muslim. There may be a funny, big-personality woman and she's Muslim.

  Nia Long

  Strong, Thinking, Personality

  "The Root Interview: Nia Long on 'Mooz-lum' and Motherhood". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.theroot.com. February 18, 2011.

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• You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Elevators

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Watching Tv, Sitting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Car, Listening

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses

  Deborah Day

  Choices, Response, Active

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