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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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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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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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Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better by how they move. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. ↗

— James Humes

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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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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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