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• Guilt loves the passive.

  Jonathan Price

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  The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

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• To be silent is to be passive.

  Octavia Spencer

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• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  George Catlett Marshall

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• Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

  Claude Bernard

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• If you try to be passive against Jake, he’ll pound you. You fall asleep against Greg and he’ll fold you up. You get the best of both worlds with the two of them.

  Aaron Biggs

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• Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

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• Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

  Arthur Adamov

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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.

  Tacitus

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• In this very real world, good doesn’t drive out evil. Evil doesn’t drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

  William Bernbach

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