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Television is a passivity.
John Green / Author
Passivity
Television
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It is passivity that dulls feeling.
Susan Sontag / Writer
Feelings
Passivity
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
Deepak Chopra / Author
Injustice
Passivity
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Defending
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Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
Isaac Hanson / Musician
Good Manners
Manners
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Good Good Manners Manners
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Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.
Julien Baker /
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I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.
Helen Garner / Novelist
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Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
Claire Denis / Film Director
Passivity
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson / Journalist
Peace
Order
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Achieved
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Maintained
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Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.
Dominique De Villepin / Former Prime Minister Of France
Escalation
Passivity
Passivity Is
Responsibility
Between
Demanding
Follow
Road
Uncontrolled
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Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.
Julia Cameron / Teacher
Devices
Passivity
Perspective
Absorb
Teaches
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Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
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Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.
Philip Zimbardo / Psychologist
Abuse
Bully
Evil
Passivity
Passivity Is
Bullies
May Never Know
Happening
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I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.
Michael T. Flynn /
Clarity
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Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
Lionel Sosa /
Oppressed
Passivity
Rooted
Benefit
Collective
Conquerors
Deliberately
Psyche
Spanish
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Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.
Robert Lighthizer /
Deficit
Passivity
Drift
Policymakers
Recognized
Trade Deficit
Widely
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I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
Alexandra Kleeman /
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Choosing
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People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
Jack O'brien /
Familiar
Passivity
Sound Of Music
Experience Music People
Perfectly
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When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
Attitude
Clinic
Fighting
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Poison
Abject
Arm
Tube
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan / Novelist
Men
Controlled
Intention
Justify
Passivity
Passivity Is
Relax
Satan
Writing
Accept
Enter
Grip
Readers
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Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
Ron Silver / Actor
East
Middle East
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Strategic
Attacks
Forced
In The Past
Interests
Iraqi
Peace Process
Price
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I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.
Edward Zwick / Filmmaker
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Iconography
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List
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The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.
Jacob Weisberg / Journalist
Efficient
Engagement
Grows
Haste
Passivity
Print
Tone
Urgent
Waste
Time Good Your
Reflects
Web
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Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats. My childhood was populated by Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Pearl Buck, Marie Curie, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Duchess of Windsor.
Florence King / Novelist
Childhood
Female
Marie
No Idea
Passivity
Victim
Windsor
Buck
Feminists
Pearl
Roosevelt
Status
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In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
James Wolcott / Journalist
Easy
Familiar
Judgment
Looks
One Direction
Pampered
Passivity
Passivity Is
Permit
Reality
Reality Tv
Tv
Carefully
Chicken
Direction
Fools
Her
Intact
Strangers
Sit
Superior
Themselves
Viewer
Watching
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
Bret Easton Ellis / Novelist
Zero
Clay
Crime
Horrific
Moments
Participants
Passivity
Passivity Is
Things Happen
Thinking
Stops
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