Sentence examples for passive virtue from inspiring English sources

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As Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has written, "Optimism is a passive virtue, hope an active one.

Optimism is a passive virtue, hope is an active one.

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If you have so much as tiptoed into the arena of personal finance over the past few decades, you will have heard about the virtues of passive investing.

Mr. Murray and his financial advisor, Daniel Goldie, have written a book in which he extols the virtues of passive management and disavows his prior efforts to "beat the markets".

Megawati Sukarnoputri, a daughter of the founder of Indonesia, Sukarno, made a campaign virtue of her passive style, declaring, "So what's wrong with being a housewife?" This is not to say that the role of women has remained static in Asia.

So a substance containing THC-a could well become controlled by virtue of active or passive conversion or synthesis, including within the body if ingested".

Passive aggression or passiveness.

The elements transmute into one another in virtue of their active and passive qualities (DOS 249).

The exercise of virtue is not, however, a passive process, but requires the free exercise of the individual will.

Theistic belief, Hume contended, inculcates the "monkish virtues of mortification, penance, humility, and passive suffering, as the only qualities which are acceptable…" But not only does theistic belief harm individual morality, according to Hume, it also harms public morality.

Possessing a virtue doesn't make us better, but passive, lazy, and proud".

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