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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think… — H.G. Wells
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being… — Mother Teresa
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years'… — William Banting
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating… — Gary Taubes
We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have… — Assata Shakur
I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better… — Assata Shakur
My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle. — Assata Shakur
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty… — Russ Feingold
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its… — Lorraine Hansberry
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into… — Robert Greene
So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly… — Carl Rogers
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite… — Fred Rogers
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have… — Daniel Barenboim
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect… — Derek Bailey
You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare… — Michelle Obama
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another,… — Ian Botham
My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better… — Peter Singer
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/femaleâ€¦In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked… — Laura Mulvey
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends… — Michael Parenti

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