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Tag Name "Active" (1015)

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The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.
Robert Updegraff
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This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.
Charles George Gordon
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I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
Tricia Helfer
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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 likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
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I don't like calling myself a feminist only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.
Bo Burnham
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If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw
Jeremy Silman
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Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.
Charles F. Haanel
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For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.
Thomas Metzinger
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I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
Jerry Ferrara
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.
Eyvind Kang
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I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.
Donald Trump
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
Evelyn Waugh
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
Kenneth Grahame
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I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains. I went to Ruapehu and for the first time I saw snow. I had never seen snow before and for 10 days the group of us had a marvellous time.
Edmund Hillary
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As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.
Tom Brady
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
Henry David Thoreau
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I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play.
Jeppe Hein
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If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.
Ryan Sheckler
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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.
Lauren Bacall
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I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.
Geoffrey Zakarian
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A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
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