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“Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.”

People World Way Able Film Young Song Poor Crazy Huge Taste Sick Majority Active Partners Luxury Minorities Introspection Powerless Recognizing Sexually Systematic Whim Advertisements Homely

Author:Edmund White

“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.”

Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

“For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.”

Mind Body Beautiful Term Taken Taste Perception Metaphor Active Passive

Author:Thomas Reid

“Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.”

Littles Real Virtue Taste Affection Active Delicate Real Love

Book:The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”

Ifs World Body Language Principles Influence This World Taste Mere Active Seeds Your Body Temper Persuasion Contagion Pestilence

Book:Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

“I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.”

“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

“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.”

Writing Looks Play Running Faith Speak Sin Walks Laughing Cry Praying Taste Draws Dare Smell Active Circles Experiments Scream Bows Provoking Repent Verbs Hide And Seek Emote

Book:Leap

Source: Leap