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Letter "P" » passive
«It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.»
«I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.»
«Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Patience
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active, concentrated, contrary, on the contrary, passive
«One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.»
Author: James C. Humes
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active, be active, leader, leaders, leadership, observers, off, passive, secret, spectators, The Observer, turns
«Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process»
«In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.»
Author: William Bernbach
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Evil
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displace, drive out, energetic, passive, real world
«Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life»
«Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.»
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and»
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