Engagement Quotes
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The engagement of the EU and China is total. We are going to vote together on the resolution.
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There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
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I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.
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The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
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I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.
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It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
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In terms of creative engagement, I just love being able to produce, produce, produce. You don't always get it perfect, but it has much more of an improvisational element, and you learn.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
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The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.
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In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.
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Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.
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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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Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.
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Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say "Hey, I want to volunteer." And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride.
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Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
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Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.
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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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We have not been a normal country when it comes to engagement in the world.
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Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.
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We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?
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When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
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Engagement is shaped by the interpretation of its intentions. In order for social media to mutually benefit you and your customers, you must engage them in meaningful and advantageous conversations, empowering them as true participants in your marketing and service efforts.
