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"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'" »Sydney Harris
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"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself." »Bernard Iddings Bell
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"O how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enshrined visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet in the still small voice, and in a voice from the Burning Bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man." »Longfellow
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"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal." »Eric Lustbader
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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper." »Barry Neil Kaufman
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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is" »Samuel Butler
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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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"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"The voice of the people is the voice of God.
(Vox Populi, Vox Dei)" »Alcuin
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"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." »Vincent Van Gough
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"The voice of the people is the voice of God." »Alcuin
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"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive." »Mao Zedong
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"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." »Erica Jong
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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will." »John Rocco Savalli
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"Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs." »Euripedes, Medea
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"Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong." »Ronald Reagan
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"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." »Woody Allen
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"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." »George Orwell
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." »H.L. Mencken
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"Conscience is the voice of the soul." »Polish Proverb
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"If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?" »George Carlin
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"To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets." »Dorothy Parker
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"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." »Anonymous
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