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Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar? – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 1 year ago
I think it's wonderful, i'll tell you why: because even more Canadians who have been looking at the whole thing passively from their home, their couch … they might want to wake up and stand up with us. – Trucker Csaba Vizi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The subsidies can shelter most enrollees from paying any premium increase, but that depends on the enrollee being willing to switch plans, if they are not willing to switch plans or if they just passively re-enroll, then they could be on the hook for a premium increase. It's important to know what you are getting into. – Cynthia Cox	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If Andy Biggs has Andy Biggs way, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger will be the party where truth-tellers and people that want to stand up for the Constitution, like Liz Cheney and Read MoreLast week, get kicked out of the party because there's no room for truth, so, I would encourage the rest of my colleagues in the Republican Party to not just passively resist that move, but to do it open and honestly. – Read MoreLast week	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That this information can be gathered passively, at a distance, ought to give us pause. – Mark Andrejevic	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
This [election] lie is like throwing gasoline on a fire. It guarantees further violence. The American people are unique. We do not passively accept our fate at the hands of tyrants. If our democracy is being stolen, we will rise up in arms. If I thought our democracy was being stolen, I’d have joined in support of the broader Jan. 6protests, if not the violence. – USA Today	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	added by Normando 5 years ago
Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious - makes you so sick at heart that you cant take part, you cant even passively take part. And you got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and youve got to make it stop. And youve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. – Mario Savio	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
People used to be content with passively watching or seeing, but these days they realize how fulfilling it is to actually participate, and they are hungry for more direct and visceral ways to remember their journeys. – Brigitte Crumple	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The pricing environment remains very competitive, but we aren't just sitting passively by, we have upgraded our pricing systems, made modest revisions to our schedules, and adjusted our approach to inventory management. – Chief Executive Bob Fornaro	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
People (in Denmark) think it makes a difference what you do, and it makes a difference whether you do something or not. You're not sitting passively waiting for somebody else, or for the politicians, to do it. That is something that hopefully could inspire others. – Connie Hedegaard	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It’s not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well… – Ruben Papian	added by anonymous 8 years ago
The main reason for the development of the app is to see if we can objectively and passively identify if people are depressed. – Sohrob Saeb	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is nothing more stressful than sitting home and watching things unfold in Washington or the media about someone you love and you feel sort of out of control or out of the realm of it, i didn't like that feeling of just sort of passively watching so I did start giving some more speeches and traveling with him. When you're out there you realize how quickly things are moving and how you can impact them so I did. – Kelley Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We should not passively watch Antarctica being turned into a theme park. – Alan Hemmings	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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. – Michel Foucault	added by anonymous 9 years ago
As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under. – Charles R. Swindoll	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar?

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

I think it's wonderful, i'll tell you why: because even more Canadians who have been looking at the whole thing passively from their home, their couch … they might want to wake up and stand up with us.

– Trucker Csaba Vizi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The subsidies can shelter most enrollees from paying any premium increase, but that depends on the enrollee being willing to switch plans, if they are not willing to switch plans or if they just passively re-enroll, then they could be on the hook for a premium increase. It's important to know what you are getting into.

– Cynthia Cox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If Andy Biggs has Andy Biggs way, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger will be the party where truth-tellers and people that want to stand up for the Constitution, like Liz Cheney and Read MoreLast week, get kicked out of the party because there's no room for truth, so, I would encourage the rest of my colleagues in the Republican Party to not just passively resist that move, but to do it open and honestly.

– Read MoreLast week

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That this information can be gathered passively, at a distance, ought to give us pause.

– Mark Andrejevic

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This [election] lie is like throwing gasoline on a fire. It guarantees further violence. The American people are unique. We do not passively accept our fate at the hands of tyrants. If our democracy is being stolen, we will rise up in arms. If I thought our democracy was being stolen, I’d have joined in support of the broader Jan. 6protests, if not the violence.

– USA Today

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

added by Normando
5 years ago

Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious - makes you so sick at heart that you cant take part, you cant even passively take part. And you got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and youve got to make it stop. And youve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

– Mario Savio

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

People used to be content with passively watching or seeing, but these days they realize how fulfilling it is to actually participate, and they are hungry for more direct and visceral ways to remember their journeys.

– Brigitte Crumple

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The pricing environment remains very competitive, but we aren't just sitting passively by, we have upgraded our pricing systems, made modest revisions to our schedules, and adjusted our approach to inventory management.

– Chief Executive Bob Fornaro

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People (in Denmark) think it makes a difference what you do, and it makes a difference whether you do something or not. You're not sitting passively waiting for somebody else, or for the politicians, to do it. That is something that hopefully could inspire others.

– Connie Hedegaard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It’s not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well…

– Ruben Papian

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The main reason for the development of the app is to see if we can objectively and passively identify if people are depressed.

– Sohrob Saeb

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is nothing more stressful than sitting home and watching things unfold in Washington or the media about someone you love and you feel sort of out of control or out of the realm of it, i didn't like that feeling of just sort of passively watching so I did start giving some more speeches and traveling with him. When you're out there you realize how quickly things are moving and how you can impact them so I did.

– Kelley Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We should not passively watch Antarctica being turned into a theme park.

– Alan Hemmings

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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.

– Michel Foucault

added by anonymous
9 years ago

As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

– Charles R. Swindoll

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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