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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive
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At the age of 81, I am left with one pleasure and that's passive smoking. I love it.
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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (Goodbye to Berlin)
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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It is not credible for a party leader to have the passive support of the wider membership without first ensuring that he has the confidence of the vast majority if not the whole of his parliamentary colleagues
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The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
View quotes by Henry Giles

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
View quotes by Susan Sontag

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.
View quotes by Dorothy Thompson

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active
View quotes by Edith Hamilton

There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: 'passive' systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and 'active' systems collect the sunlight that hits your neighbors' homes, too.

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