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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn… — Carter Heyward
The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity. — Willis R. Whitney
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,… — George Whitefield
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has… — Wolfgang Pauli
Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be… — Pope John Paul II
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries. — Anna Lindh
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. — Paul Klee
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is… — Leo Buscaglia
It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit. — Ernest Holmes
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely… — Thomas Jefferson
Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which… — Dian Fossey
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life. — Aristotle
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give… — Marie Curie
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey

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