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I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with… — David Cameron
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed… — Dick Cheney
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect… — Thomas Aquinas
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than… — Alexander Hamilton
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our… — Alexander Hamilton
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to… — Samuel Johnson
Marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man. — Frances M. Young
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of… — Oswald Chambers
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let… — Lucretia Mott
The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our… — Wyatt Tee Walker
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when… — Sun Tzu
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship. — Kofi Annan

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