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  • Whether a high-need organization is paying you or not, having an excuse to leave your house every morning and be among the active and active-minded will expose you to opportunities and ideas that can change your life.

    Andrea Chalupa: Howard Dean as John the Baptist and Other Big Ideas at the Little Idea Andrea Chalupa 2010

  • Whether a high-need organization is paying you or not, having an excuse to leave your house every morning and be among the active and active-minded will expose you to opportunities and ideas that can change your life.

    Andrea Chalupa: Howard Dean as John the Baptist and Other Big Ideas at the Little Idea Andrea Chalupa 2010

  • Whether a high-need organization is paying you or not, having an excuse to leave your house every morning and be among the active and active-minded will expose you to opportunities and ideas that can change your life.

    Andrea Chalupa: Howard Dean as John the Baptist and Other Big Ideas at the Little Idea Andrea Chalupa 2010

  • Whether a high-need organization is paying you or not, having an excuse to leave your house every morning and be among the active and active-minded will expose you to opportunities and ideas that can change your life.

    Andrea Chalupa: Howard Dean as John the Baptist and Other Big Ideas at the Little Idea Andrea Chalupa 2010

  • It reminds me of the part of "1984" where Winston Smith expects a rather intelligent, active-minded colleague to disappear because he is "too bright" despite being all gung-ho for Ingsoc and Big Brother.

    Media Matters doesn't understand the word "despite." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Of late all the active-minded men who spring to the front in our government were theimmediate descendants of Scotch, or Scotch-Irish.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Of late all the active-minded men who spring to the front in our government were theimmediate descendants of Scotch, or Scotch-Irish.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • If his complaint is that the active-minded men who are attracted to Catholic Action for its potential to engage and transform the social order tend to see things with a strictly temporal or natural — as opposed to spiritual or supernatural — viewpoint, then the answer is that if this were true, it is a valid point; but I don't think that it is true.

    Catholic Action - An Alternate View 2007

  • The Reformation in like manner is only to be understood after we have perceived the enormous mass of superstition, injustice, and wilful ignorance, by which the theological idea had become so incrusted as to be wholly incompetent to guide society, because it was equally repugnant to the intellectual perceptions and the moral sense, the knowledge and the feelings, of the best and most active-minded persons of the time.

    Voltaire 2007

  • Of late all the active-minded men who spring to the front in our government were theimmediate descendants of Scotch, or Scotch-Irish.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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