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«Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
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constituted, engaged, psychiatry, radical, transformation, undertakes
«The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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conservative, engaged, exercises, justification, modern philosophy, moral philosophy, oldest, selfishness, The Search
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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chastity, corpse, deform, deformed, deforms, distressing, emasculated, engaged, gallows, impotent, in a sense, missionary, offers, sentiments, sodomy, spectacle, vow
«You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.»
«We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we?ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep.»
«We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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achieve, alive, associated, associating, engaged, inner, outer, purposes, rapture, raptures, The Rapture, value
«To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
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Education
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engaged, exposed, Human Events, informed, vulnerably
«We are engaged mainly in a struggle for the soul of this new century. Victory for our vision depends upon winning the fight we're in against terrorism, on spreading the benefits, and reducing the burdens of the modern world, on changes in poor nations themselves that will make progress possible, and finally, on developing a global level of consciousness about what our responsibilities to each other are and what our relationships ought to be.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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benefits, burdens, developing, engaged, global, level of consciousness, mainly, modern world, reducing, responsibilities, spreading, terrorism
«Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.»
Author: Buddha
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Did, efforts, engaged, followed, form, People Are Wrong, The Voice of the People, voice, voiced, voice over, wrong
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