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Source: The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin

“If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.”

Ifs Done Interest Community Teach Society Corruption Dues Temptation Engaged Enterprise Personal Interest

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.”

Seems Hours Half Waste Ordinary Engaged Telephones Interruptions

Author:Beatrice Webb

“To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.”

Love Is Creativity Engaged

Author:Lina Wertmuller

“You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.”

“Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.”

Two Philosophy Force Saws Personality Mere Crowds Engaged Egypt Impressive Living Things Lanes Camels Cairo

Author:Sara Jeannette Duncan

“Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.”

“There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.”

Humans Soul God Stories Our Lives Divine Hero Drama Saint Patterns Feminist Bridges Novelists Realms Engaged Reserved

Author:Deena Metzger

“Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.”

War Given Attention Consequence Court Including International Dues Criminals Punishment Propaganda Engaged Aggression Violation Due Time

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.”

Years War Shows Body Girl Figures Seven Engaged Show Me Seven Years

Book:Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does

Source: Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does

“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.”

“The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.”

Poor Audience Activity Ugly Heavy Novelists Engaged Pens Tribes Hearted Circulation Rosy Complexion Heavy Hearted

Author:Jane Gardam

“all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.”

Religion Definitions Theology Engaged Oppressed

Book:Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation

Source: Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation

“The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunications a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligence on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither.”

“I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.”

Giving Values Term Plans Demand Riches Engaged Definite

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"”

Trying Enemy Support Balance Asking Population Locals Engaged Capture

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.”

Children Choices Issues Students Engaged Surprising Food Choices

Author:Michael Pollan

“I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Writing Book Done Bigs Kids Jobs Courses Enjoy Reader Picks Engaged Reluctant

Author:Rick Riordan

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.”

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“As Americans we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free thinking and engaged audience.”

Thinking Giving Values Voice Leader Roles Audience Information Independent Institutions Presses Circles Journalist Engaged Consumed Free Thinking Voiceless

Author:Lester Holt

“Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.”

Men Reason Running Risk Fool Folks Engaged Companion Conspiracy Fellowship Knaves

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.”

Want Made Shows Felt Sound Imagination Wall Internet Albums Active Video Engaged Tickets Posters Sensory Overload

Author:Q-Tip

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