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Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
Stephen Jay Gould

Work, Good, Science

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
Kathleen Turner

Work, Politics, Help

Experimentation is an active science.
Claude Bernard

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Richard Cecil

Break, Sit, Pieces

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
William Godwin

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
Kiana Tom

Sports, Parents, Play

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall

Life, Christian, Soldier

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
Michelle Bachelet

Change, Women, Men

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.
Lisa Loeb

Computers, Sports, School

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin

Health, Treat, Gun

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
Mika Brzezinski

Family, Around, Mountains

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.
Georgina Chapman

Great, Sea, Red

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

Leadership, Mind, Leader

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
Guy Kawasaki

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Worldwide, Iranians

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
Margot Kidder

Peace, Movement

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
Jerzy Kosinski

Action, Types, Observe

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.
Bernard Hinault

Life, Work, Two

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Otto Schily

Hate, Play, Why

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.
Elizabeth Olsen

Character, Feeling, Two

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
Lee Haney

Life, Fitness, Sports

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
Lee Haney

Great, Keep, Kids

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Tom Bosley

Happy, Live, Depression

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Looking, Stay, Ways

I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
Abbie Cornish

Time, Hope, Respect

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
Hans Blix

Time, Fake, Long

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
Taylor Lautner

Sports, Football, Friends

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
Ellsworth Huntington

Live, Mind, Human

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Kamala Harris

Parents, Both, Students

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
Studs Terkel

Become, Once, Realize

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