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«Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.»
«Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.»
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
(Activist, Buddhist Leader)
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Buddhism
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Buddhism, conservatism, flux, initiative, passively, swept, Swept Away
«There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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against the rules, bursting, carried, expressing, intellectuals, In books, manifesting, once and for all, passionate, passively, resistant, ruled, rule book, rule the world, struggles
«We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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desires, different, discover, I Want to Live, needs, passively, stand, stand for, unfulfilled
«Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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cutting, cutting off, intensely, mystic, mystics, obstacle, passively, stillness, The Hunger, thirst, uncontrolled
«Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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conformity, passively, recognized, The Natural, vague
«He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Evil
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accepts, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, helps, involved, passively, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, protested, protesting, protests
«I call that mind free which is not passively framed by outward circumstances, which is not swept away by the torrent of events, which is not the creature of accidental impulse, but which bends events to its own improvement, and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which it has deliberately espoused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
accidental, bends, deliberately, espouse, espoused, espousing, passively, swept