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“In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.”

Should Has Beens Order Situation Should Have Active Stations Founding Should Have Been

Author:Adam Weishaupt

“The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war”

Important War Class Demand Constant Active Practicals Individualism Marxism

Book:Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

“Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”

Ifs Life Is Grows Christ Spring Draws Empty Active Passing Passings Perpetual Fountain Filling Fullness Stagnant Reservoirs Passing On

Book:A Larger Christian Life: Expanding Your Spiritual Horizons

Source: A Larger Christian Life: Expanding Your Spiritual Horizons

“Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart”

Heart Stills Young Modern Active Teenage Anniversary Young At Heart Geriatrics

Author:John Walter Bratton

“I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.”

Play Strong Sports Parent Goal Taught Healthy Importance Raised Active Focused Setting Settings Staying Setting Goals Stay Strong

Author:Kiana Tom

“We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.”

People Thinking Community Source Active Testing Open Source

Author:Mitchell Baker

“I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.”

Thinking Important Brain Learning Active Keep Learning

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.”

Source: The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life

“At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.”

“In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.”

Giving Used Enemy Support Active Chess Squares Pawns

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.”

Source: The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge

“If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Mind Body Eye Past Term Realizing Church Seeing Men And Women Roots Ears Rose Plant Hearing Active Delicate Dirt Ugliness Energetic Physiology Active Minds

Book:Inishfallen, fare thee well

Source: Inishfallen, fare thee well

“A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.”

Mind Body Active Vigorous

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.”

People Way Needs Shows Kids Effort Roles Models Active Role Models Another Way Positive Role Model

Author:MC Hammer

“As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.”

Giving Firsts Matter Body Age Past Form Causes Powerful Four Thirds Misery Active Old Age Accomplishment Enjoyment Fourth

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.”

Book Literature Design Presses Active Passive Leather Binding Typography Standardization Individualization

Author:Jan Tschichold

“I'm finished ... I'm done. What I want above all things is to take some active part in beating the Germans ... I'd go out to the Front at once.”

Want Done Action Fronts All Things Active Finished

Author:Winston Churchill

“Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.”

Want Needs Helping Half Program Active Access Planning Titles Pregnancy Pregnant Sexually Public Health Medicaid Family Planning

Author:Louise Slaughter

“We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.”

Ifs Desire Creativity Creative Method Active Scientific Method

Author:Kary Mullis

“We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women”

Government Wish Women Rights Equal Active Broads Womens Rights Participation Equal Rights Men Women Active Participation

Author:Sima Samar

“If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Helping Challenges Positive Active Right Thing Endeavor

Book:The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

Source: The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants

“The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.”

Needs Feels States Play Roles Destiny Greater Groups Materials Demand Active Sufficient Minorities Entity Indigenous Provision Allegiance Be Confident Indigenous People Minority Groups

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.”

Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

“Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting.”

“Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.”

States Happens Opportunity Process Ability Consciousness Responsibility Disease Flow Harmony Active Recognition Carrie Affected Inability Implicit States Of Consciousness Disharmony

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.”

Facts Given Movement Female Trade Unions Workers Active Trade Unions

Author:Clara Zetkin

“The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing.”

Looks Healing Situation Practice Active Focused Partners Encounters Meaning Life

Author:Alberto Villoldo

“Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.”

Humans Active Passive

Author:Nuala O'Faolain

“Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.”

Knows Reading Activity Active

Author:Rachel Miner

“The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.”

Mind Moving Imagination Wind Expectations Clouds Active Landscape Our Thoughts Transparent

Author:William Hurrell Mallock

“Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.”

Thinking Mind Spiritual Spirit Meditation Divine Essence Experience Unions Dance Individuality Active Ecstasy Cosmic Trance

Author:Goa Gil

“It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.”

Thinking Life Important Trouble Smart Active Being Smart

Author:Alisa Valdes

“It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.”

People Doe States Reason Support Military Duty Conscience Notes Killing Refuse Active Curious Bureaucracy Exemption

Author:Karl Hess

“Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.”

Men Active Make Sense

Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.”

Mind Feelings Desire Quality Pure Active Arise Witness Attachment Closing Elimination Eliminating Receptivity Spaciousness

Book:Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

“You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did everything.”

Ifs Effort Grace Divine Depends Regard Active Dependent Faith In God Divine Grace

Author:John Angell James

“Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration. The heart is shut against Christ: man cannot open it, only God can do it by his grace.”

Men Believe Heart Children Christ Can Do Grace Generations Products Active Repent Regeneration

Book:Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses

Source: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses

“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.”

People Mistake Prove Negative Privilege Active Making Mistakes Mediocre Ikea

Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.”

World Book Comfortable Pages Clubs Active Skype Book Club Facebook Page

Author:Cathy Marie Buchanan

“Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It is our duty to look for deeper meanings in the Quran in order to increase our knowledge and experience. The Quran wants your intellect to be always active and trying to approach the message of God. God himself dedicated this book to people who think.”

“All life requires a rhythm of rest. . . There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea.”

Way Night Fall Growth Morning Sea Land Conversation Eternal Summer Spring Winter Active Rhythm Fall And Winter

Book:Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

Source: Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

“Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.”

Way Honesty Active Truthful Passive Verbs Nouns Being Truthful

Author:Joe Tye

“Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Desire Goal Results Attitude Leader Vision Influence Expectations Organization Determine Active Mood Objectives Managers Desirable Visionaries Responding

Author:Abraham Zaleznik

“Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.”

People Failing Effects Stupid Smart Concepts Fundamentals Investment Active Elegant Smart People

Author:Peter Cundill

“Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.”

Play Challenges Jazz Hearing Active Piano Solo Pianist Volcanoes Monitoring Free Jazz

Author:Jon Pareles

“Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.”

Years Today Lasts Passion Masters Approach Musician My Friends Determination Active Reputation Producers Persistence Composer Multiple Educator Through The Years Stellar

Author:Bennie Maupin

“People need to know there is life after salvation! Salvation is not only about eternity. Salvation is the open door to an abundant earthly life in which we enjoy the love and direction of an active God!”

People Knows Needs Enjoy Doors Eternity Salvation Active

Author:Beth Moore

“Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.”

Situation Enemy Greater Threat Active Tongue Believer Word Of God

Book:Believing God

Source: Believing God

“The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”

Fighting Strong Force Battle Brave Active Can Not Vigilant Militia

Author:Patrick Henry

“My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.”

Mind Made Important Hate Steps Baby Development Conflict Losing Active Convinced Arise Loved Ones Love And Hate Psycho Analytics

Book:The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works

Source: The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works