Quotes with involves

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  • Angela Davis That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Smiles The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Deepak Chopra The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Boris Johnson The proposed ban on incitement to religious hatred makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself; and that would be pretty absurd, when you consider that the Bill's intention is to fight Islamophobia.
    Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Angela Davis The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • John W. Gardner True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Harriet Martineau What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Cass Sunstein When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Lewis S. Feuer Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
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