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    [Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

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    Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

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    And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

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    All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

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    An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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    A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

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    As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

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    A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

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    At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth." "What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?" "He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.

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    A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been lost, is imperative to good writing - I just don't know how you can be a serious writer without it.

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    A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

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    Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

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    Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

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    BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

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    Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

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    But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

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    Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

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    But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

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    But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

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    Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

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    Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

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    Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

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    Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

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    Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

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    Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

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    During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

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    Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

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    Enduring faith is not blind or obedient, it is keenly attentive and responsible; it is not fed by awe, but by quickening interest; prosperity is not the disappearance of problems, but the continual engagement with the process of finding solutions. Wisdom is not given from on high, but must be painstakingly unraveled from the knots in his own guts.

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    Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

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    Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

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    Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

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    Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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    Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

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    Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

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    Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

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    Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

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    For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

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    Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

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    I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

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    How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

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    Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).

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    I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

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    I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

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    I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

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    I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

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    I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

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    I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican

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    If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

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    If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

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    If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.