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“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”

Ideas Realizing Taste Function Intellect Active Senses Former Latter Faculty Passive

Book:The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

Source: The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

“The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.”

Form Artist Figures Active Symbols Discourse

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.”

Believe Ideas Reality Used Individual I Believe Attention Moral Mark Active Agents Characteristics

Book:The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

Source: The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

“Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.”

Men Made Real Growth Results Effort Difficulty Strive Active Encounters Courageous Astonishing Working Man

Author:Samuel Smiles

“I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.”

Thinking Want Mind Can Do Crosses Athlete Active Like Family

Author:Roger Federer

“If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.”

Ifs Heaven Events India Active Doctrine Adopted

Book:Indian Home Rule

Source: Indian Home Rule

“The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.”

Play Happens Roles Economy Function Financial Active Financial Markets

Author:George Soros

“Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.”

Firsts Brain Too Much Active Peace Within

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .”

Mind Kind States Might Fall Special Conditions Duty Creating Add Photographer Active State Of Mind Blank Truck Receptive Curb Bumper Falling Off Special Times

Author:Minor White

“Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.”

Perseverance Active Characteristics

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a lot isn't necessary, but I am very active, and my body can endure intense workouts.”

Body Secret Watches Endure Work Out Active Intense Diets Portions Balanced Workout Balanced Diet

Author:Adriana Lima

“To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.”

Humanity Names Institutions Educational Active Permanent Welfare Contribution Educational Institutions

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.”

Source: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

“Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'”

Feels Feelings Suffering Choices Intellectual Constant Active Pursuit Horrible Liberalism Conservatism Vigilance

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.”

Should Kind Two Matter Play Would Be Asks Hours Brain Practice Four Minutes Fingers Eight Active Concentration Maximum Pupils

Author:Leopold Auer

“When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.”

Active Stillness

Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris

“Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves.”

People Shows Quality Information Intelligent Active Customers Coffee Conclusion Tea Delivering Good Quality Coffee And Tea

Author:Jerry Baldwin

“My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.”

Writing Moral Notes Active Useless Journal Vocabulary Adequate Moral Life Keeping A Journal Writing Notes

Book:Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

Source: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

“Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.”

People Made Felt Powerful Common Rights Violence Movement Gay Active Aids Vulnerable Related Visible Organize Gay Rights Gay People

Author:Dale Peck

“What's compelling about the story and what's very honest about the story is that it's very real and it's happening. There are 200,000 women in active duty, and over 40% of them are moms. This experience is shared by thousands of women, and no one is right or wrong.”

Real Stories Honest Duty Mom Happenings Active Compelling

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.”

“I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.”

People Ifs Persons Night Asks Energy Levels Morning Tough Drinking Active Coffee Ask Me Call Me Milk Belly Pins Bad Day Caffeine Drinking Coffee Energy Levels Night Person

Author:Bipasha Basu

“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.”

Mistake Privilege Active Making Mistakes

Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.”

Way States Imagination Sleep Half Active Waking Reverie Half Way

Author:Carl Jung

“In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.”

Two Different Use Together Metaphor Active Phrases Different Things Interaction Simplest Single Word

Author:I. A. Richards

“The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.”

Men Long Ought Active Every Man Certainty Probability Prosecution

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.”

Ifs Knows Men Believe Looks Long I Can Fighting One Thing Ready Active No Point

Author:Socrates

“Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action”

Mean Doe Action Evil Principles Struggle Creative Violence Building Demand Hatred Method Active Oppression Compromise Courageous Passive Using Me Acquiescence Disunity

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.”

Sometimes Waiting Lord Painful Active Clinging

Book:If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat

Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat

“How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide.”

Kind Purpose Active Engaged Motivated Workplace

Author:Marc Kielburger

“It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.”

Men World Humans Facts Action Lying Teach Creatures Foundation Active Guarantees Governors Passive Human Freedom Deism

Book:Fundamentalism

Source: Fundamentalism

“I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.”

Source: So shall ye reap: selected addresses

“The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time. So if you value your citizenship and you want to keep it for yourself and your children and their children, give it your faith, your belief, and give it your active support in civic affairs.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Children Values Belief Support Our Children Affair Active Your Children Citizenship Civics

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.”

Want Needs Should Years Important Hard Seems Government Sides Roles Economy Too Much Hard Work Cost Argument Tired Charity Crowds Active Debate Budgets Engaged Initiative Overbearing

Author:George W. Bush

“The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.”

Humans Has Beens Art Self Government Race Existence Principles Industry Self Love Property Active Human Race Wages Exclusive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by the height to which they ascend above the level of their age and country; and the same stature, which in a people of giants would pass unnoticed, must appear conspicuous in a race of pygmies.”

People Real Country Age Levels Effort Race Virtue Genius Active Height Giants Stature Unnoticed Elevation

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.”

Men Firsts Children Energy Lost He Man Property Dare Active Defence

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.”

Virtue Habit Discipline Patient Soldier Active

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)

“Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.”

Active Oppression Courageous Iranian

Author:Farah Diba

“Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.”