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Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery. -- Judith Lynne Hanna
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains -- Stephen R. Donaldson
War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants. -- Michael Badnarik
I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group. -- Gary Gygax
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow. -- Viswanathan Anand
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Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants. -- Shreya Ghoshal
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens. -- Reza Aslan
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. -- Sigmund Freud
Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans. -- Cliff Stearns
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. -- Ben Bernanke
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. -- Angela Davis
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it. -- Nelson Rockefeller
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me. -- John Sexton
Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them. -- Justin Rosenstein
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. -- Noam Chomsky
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published. -- James Gunn
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.' -- Howard Rheingold
Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out. -- Bill Dedman
The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons. -- Tom Wujec
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take no prisoners' approach. -- Srikumar Rao
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants. -- Adam Davidson
Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote. -- John Francis Daley
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something. -- John Lewis
Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
Love can't be stolen without willing participants. -- Jon Jones
We are all participants in the marvelous. -- James Broughton
The ride does not require an explanation, just participants. -- Sonny Barger
Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants. -- Mark Twight
Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman. -- Zainab Salbi
Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants. -- Greta Van Susteren
It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans. -- Janice Kaplan
In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants. -- Robert L. Bartley
There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not. -- Lee R. Raymond
Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants ... -- Susan Dunlap
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. -- Clay Shirky
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience. -- Rebecca Solnit
The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day. -- Stephen King
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. -- Will Rogers
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? -- Robert Solow
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks. -- William J. Bernstein
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story. -- Buzz Aldrin
A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally. -- Morton Blackwell
Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe. -- Vladimir Putin
The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development. -- Vladimir Putin
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought. -- Daniel Dennett
How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants? -- George W. Bush
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds. -- Kenneth Fisher
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. -- Clay Shirky
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation. -- Gary L. Francione
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny. -- Mackenzie Davis
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls. -- Vera Caslavska
We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed. -- William Kent Krueger
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come. -- Michael Sandel
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute. -- Thomas Pogge
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I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants. -- Gennifer Flowers
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate... -- Clay Shirky
But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside. -- Thomas Yellowtail
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. -- George Will
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants. -- Mitchell Baker
Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants. -- T.F. Hodge
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. -- Said Musa
Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event! -- Roberto Hogue
I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works. -- Michael Moore
Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away. -- Brian Wansink
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them. -- Avinash Persaud
This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision. -- Vladimir Putin
America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world. -- Matthew Stewart
In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants. -- Harold Geneen
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Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. -- Pope Benedict XVI
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run. -- Alan Greenspan
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values. -- Wangari Maathai
Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation. -- Selma James
It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces. -- Emma Watson
Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or e-mailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. -- Ivan Reitman
We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth. -- Parker J. Palmer
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own. -- Orson Scott Card
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them. -- Liz Williams
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time. -- Alan Greenspan
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together. -- Ed Greenwood
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master. -- Gloria Steinem
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants. -- Plutarch
There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game. -- Alfred Hitchcock
The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome. -- Robert Jay Lifton
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia. -- Woodrow Wilson
I think very highly of Expo and all is going well. We've seen big problems with [corruption] scandals [at local government level], but it is going forward, with the highest number of participants ever expected. -- Franca Sozzani
Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. -- Noam Chomsky

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