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• Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

  Paul Rand

  Lying, Mind, Balance

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• Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

  Michael Moore

  Sports, Democracy, Events

  "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.

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• I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Giving, Watches

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• Podrías llamarle", sugiere Wes. "¿Por qué ser un espectador en el juego del amor? Toma las riendas. No esperes y deja que el chico lleve la voz cantante". "Por muy cursi que suene todo eso", añade Kimmie. "Con queso o sin él, sé de lo que hablo". Se enfurruña. "Lo he vivido. Lo he aprendido". Kimmie suelta una carcajada. "¿Con quién, Romeo? ¿Esa chica Wendy a la que pagaste para que saliera contigo?". "Ah, ¿y porque no tengo un historial de citas tan grande como tu boca, no está a la altura?". "Odio decirte esto, pero no es lo único tuyo que no está a la altura". "¿No te gustaría saberlo?" Sonríe.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Chica, Odio, Chicos

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• Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

  Ansel Adams

  Discovery, World, Helping

  Ansel Adams (1995). "Ansel Adams: fotografías"

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• A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Men, Laughing, Desire

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1952). “Rashomon: and other stories”

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• Los niños pequeños dan por sentado que las cosas van a cambiar todos los días y los adultos entienden que las cosas cambian tarde o temprano y su trabajo consiste en evitar que cambien el mayor tiempo posible. Sólo los niños en el instituto están convencidos de que nunca van a cambiar. Siempre va a haber un pep rally y siempre va a haber un autobús de espectadores, en algún lugar de su futuro.

  Stephen King

  Trabajo, Niños, Adolescente

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). "Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King", McGraw-Hill Companies

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• It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.

  Albert Camus

  Lonely, Stars, Philosophy

  L'Etranger (The Stranger) pt. 2, ch. 5 (1942)

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• For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

  Paul Krugman

  Sports, Growth, Economic

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• Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to the English, "Have sweet dreams," the French implied that the sleeper was not a passive spectator, a captive audience, but had some control over and must accept some responsiblity for his or her dreaming. Moreover, a "fine" dream had much wider connotations than a "sweet" one.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Sweet, Light

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• He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.

  Stefan Zweig

  Breathing, Erotic, Veins

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.18, Pushkin Press

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• To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, World, Tongue

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). "Los pintores de la vida moderna", Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• Toda muerte, incluso la más cruel, se ahoga en la total indiferencia de la Naturaleza La Naturaleza misma miraría impasible si destruyéramos a toda la raza humana Odio a la Naturaleza este espectador sin pasión esta cara de iceberg irrompible que puede soportarlo todo esto nos empuja a actos cada vez mayores

  Peter Weiss

  Odio, Raza, Relojes

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• In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

  François Magendie

  Simple, Play, Physicians

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• For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Thinking, Our Actions

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.40

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• Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, Struggle, Hands

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• In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Drama, Hands

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Beautiful, Artist, Player

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• Tal vez digas: ¿Por qué se alegran los malvados? ¿Por qué viven en el lujo? ¿Por qué no trabajan conmigo? Es porque los que no se han inscrito para luchar por la corona no están obligados a someterse a las fatigas de la contienda. Los que no han bajado al hipódromo no se untan con aceite ni se cubren de polvo. Para aquellos a quienes espera la gloria, los problemas están cerca. Los espectadores perfumados suelen mirar, no se unen a la lucha, ni soportan el sol, el calor, el polvo y las lluvias.

  Bill Vaughan

  Lucha, raza, polvo

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• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Sympathy, Men, Suffering

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

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• ... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

  Elaine Dundy

  Banquets, Disinterested

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.37, New York Review of Books

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• Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.

  Fielding H. Yost

  School, Player, Honor

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• Cada movimiento teatral de un hábil poeta se comunica, como por arte de magia, a los espectadores, que lloran, tiemblan, se resienten, se regocijan y se inflaman con toda la variedad de pasiones que mueven a los diversos personajes del drama.

  David Hume

  Drama, Passion, Magic

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.258

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• I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Marriage, Sports, Believe

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.127, Random House

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• Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes for pushing a lever and then retreating to passivity, for democracy demands committed participation in the daily workings of society.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Deportes, País, Gente

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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