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The stable funding announced today will allow Special Olympics to grow and benefit an increasing number of Canadians. I am proud that our Government is… — Jim Flaherty
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences… — Max Nordau
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — Andrew Wyeth
Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement… — Milton William Cooper
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out. — Peter Porter
Now, I think our prophet today is telling all of us, in this day and time, to go and bring in those people who are… — James E. Faust
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity.… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to… — James E. Talmage
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final… — David Hume
Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we… — Pope Benedict XVI
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative… — Isidore of Seville
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;… — Rod Liddle
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe… — Walter Scott
Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has… — Elaine L. Jack
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know… — Erich Fromm
And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place. — Yoko Ono

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