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«A passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world.»
«A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.»
Author: Barbara Walters
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aggressive, feminine, frightening, passive, solid, stay-at-home, traditionally
«Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.»
«He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
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beggarly, commands, guests, householder, impure, invites, mansion, passive, receptacle, receptacles, servants, streams, The Mansion, The Negative, with authority
«Active Evil is better than Passive Good.»
«HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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entertains, hostility, overpopulation, passive, peculiarly, respectively
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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circle, elements, endeavoring, helpless, lets, local, major, narrow, passive, The Elements, trade, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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active, dislike, envy, one-step, passive
«In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artefact, bur, logo, Logos, not neutral, passive, tetrad
«A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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acquiescence, initiative, passive, shocking, unscrupulous
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