#passive

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ↗

— Bill Ayers

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I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. ↗

— Bill Gates

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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. ↗

— George C. Marshall

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel. ↗

— Charles Baxter

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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

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In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive. ↗

— William Bernbach

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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