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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. ↗

— William Glasser

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It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. ↗

— James Bovard

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. ↗

— Merton Miller

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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