"Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes."

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Source : Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

Thomas Ehrlich

#Motivation Quotes #Mean Quotes #Skills Quotes

“For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.”

Source : Runner's World magazine, June 2009.
“They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.”
“Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.”
“Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.”
“Exercise and writing are so therapeutic to me. I try to write every day and I make it a huge priority to find time to work out, even if that means taking a spin class at 7am before work.”
“Honey, I just forgot to duck.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Feb. 1927. Said to his wife after losing the world heavyweight boxing championship to Gene Tunney, 23 Sept. 1926. President Ronald W. Reagan joked to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck!" after John Hinckley tried to assassinate him 30 Mar. 1981.
“The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.”
“My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.”

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