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“The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.”

“Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.”

Knows Way Play Guy Fighting Know How Active

Author:Victoria Pratt

“Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.”

Men Mean Has Beens Humanity Natural Active Rhythm Holiday Passive Schedules Endeavour Flux

Author:Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?”

Trying Moments Given Nations Waiting Attention Media Identity Wall Fame Hundred Machines Mark Wings Rewards Ill Active Dozen Killers Provoking Crave Refusal Mentally Ill Databases Copycats

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.”

Process Learning Connections Structure Active Additives

Author:K. Patricia Cross

“Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.”

Character Process Example Active Rooted Forged

Author:John Baldoni

“I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.”

People Ifs Knows Want Country Can Do Active Engaged

Author:Jim DeMint

“The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.”

“The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.”

Half Millions Groups Victory Labor Dollars Workers Active Campaigns Immense Polls Million Dollars Sweeping Cio

Author:John T. Flynn

“I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.”

People Trying Persons Moments Animal Talking Products Benefits Eating Active Latter Vegan Educate Testing Best Person Eating Animals Health Benefits

Author:Daniel Johns

“I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.”

Careers Blessed Active Civics Busybodies

Author:George Takei

“Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.”

Years Long Hard Community Economy Deserve Independent Raises Active Golden Senior Active Life Golden Years

Author:Christopher Dodd

“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.”

Doe Book Film Reading Brain Air Reader Scene Active Passages Participation Unreal Slow Motion Active Participation

Author:Lewis Buzbee

“Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.”

Action Creation Objects Concerned Active Agents

Book:The marrow of theology

Source: The marrow of theology

“Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.”

Science Fields Development Active Predictable

Author:Charles Francis Richter

“It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.”

Mean Persons Seems Groups Active Conception Nonviolent Communication

Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events that occur there. It is an active participant in those occurrences. Indeed, by virtue of its underlying and enveloping presence, the place may even be felt to be the source, the primary power that expresses itself through the various events that unfold there.”

Humans May Culture Felt Virtue Land Events Particular Source Various Active Setting Settings Primaries Passive Participants

Book:The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

“Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”

Wells Doe Please Worship Notes Active Obedience Passive Worship God

Book:Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

Source: Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

“The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.”

Two Force Elements Female Unions Males Active Symbols Passive Pointing Corresponding Triangles

Author:Albert Mackey

“The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.”

Energy Acting Members Active Enjoyment Neglect Spontaneous

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.”

Cameras Active Thrillers Narrators

Author:John McTiernan

“The stable funding announced today will allow Special Olympics to grow and benefit an increasing number of Canadians. I am proud that our Government is committed to providing opportunities for Canadians of all ages and all abilities to engage in sport and physical activity and to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle.”

“How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .”

“Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilized nations.”

Source: The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question

“I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.”

World Father Imagination Wonderful Reader Active Surrender Tales My Imagination

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate. The future is in your hands.”

Men Hands Results Imagine Wonderful Active Horrible Enslavement Wonderful Experience

Author:Milton William Cooper

“An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.”

Art Active Paradise Gates Rumours

Book:The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems

Source: The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems

“Now, I think our prophet today is telling all of us, in this day and time, to go and bring in those people who are out on the plains. Each worthy young man should go on a mission. And each one of us, though we may not be called to active missionary service, can be on a mission and be involved in a cause that is greater than we are, the greatest cause of all in the world: the salvation of each of our Father's children.”

“All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.”

Doe Belief Calm Active Mistaken Superstitious

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“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.”

“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.”

Life Believe May Stills Belief Christ Acceptance Active Agreement Have Faith Passive Reliance

Book:Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: Articles of Faith: Being a Consideration of the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.”

Made Whole Feelings Principles Virtue Depends Morality Ethics Universal Misery Species Finals Vices Active Sentences Internals

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition

“Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God', as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount”

“In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.”

Men Firsts May Light Practice Divine Saint Vices Active Contemplation Good Work Contemplative Active Life Divine Light Contemplative Life Seville

Author:Isidore of Seville

“Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.”

Looks Done Eye Earth Past Heaven Humility Pride Higher Remains Deeds Active Commit Lifts Height Look Up Discovering Complacency Vigilant Elevation Calculating Niceties

Author:James McCosh

“Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.”

“I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection; but it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty — for your active exertions are due not only to society, but in humble titude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to serve yourself and others.”

Ifs Life Looks Made Stills Moving Path Share Duty Ought Gratitude Members Humble Active Protection Dues Rejoice Success In Life No Friends Incumbents Save Yourself

Author:Walter Scott

“Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.”

“Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).”

Men Life Depends Hero Activity Aspect Active Corrections Contemplative Active Life Contemplative Life

Author:Ananda Coomaraswamy

“When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.”

Men Real Self Play Dream Universe Process Watches Objects Conscious Complexes Active Senses Perceive Affected Cosmic Duality Ephemeral Real Self Yogi

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.”

Knows Love Persons Desire Love Is Knowledge Unions Active Fusion Penetration

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.”

World Love Active Better Place Something You Love

Author:Yoko Ono

“Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.”

“In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."”

“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”

Ifs Persons Turns Fall Accepting Class Knowledge Learning Groups Influence Particular Shapes Prejudice Management Active Agents Tone Interaction Behaviour Stereotype Participating

Author:Peter Senge

“In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.”

World Reality Happens Can Do Knowledge Learning Activity Shapes Skills Management Active Planning New World Expertise Participants

Book:Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.”

Long Music Is Jazz Clubs Active Owners Montreal

Author:Oscar Peterson

“The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.”

Long Happiness Water Pleasure Wise Active Hills Virtuous Joyful Tranquil Chinese Philosophy

Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.”

People Ability Teach Depends Daughter Active Be Good Good People Sexually Our Daughter

Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

“What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.”

Political Interest Influence Movement Active Mills Suffrage Political Movements Women's Suffrage

Author:Millicent Fawcett

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