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God has instituted in our time holy wars, so that the order of knights and the crowd running in their wake, who following the example of the ancient pagans have been engaged in slaughtering one another, might find a new way of gaining salvation.
— c.1097 Gesta Dei per Francos, in Recueil des historiens de croisades occidentaux, edited by L'Acade mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1847-95), vol.4, p.124.
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.
jonathan edwards— P. 541. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I would definitely not be homosexual. I have nothing against what they do and I don't deny that I've engaged in sex with males but that I'm bisexual.
john wayne gacy— Biography - John Wayne Gacy: Monster in Disguise. A & E Home Video, 2000.
I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.
andrew s. tanenbaum— Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2 [1]
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human personality. His insistence on the sanctity of nature was part of an attempt to develop Goethe's intuition that form cannot be put together in the mind by an additive process, but is to be deduced from the laws of growth in living organisms, and their resistance to the elements.
kenneth clark— Section 3: A Note on Ruskin's Writings on Art and Architecture
Rabbi Maurice Davis -- Senior rabbi of the Jewish Community Center of White Plains, N.Y.; faculty member of Manhattan College; actively engaged in combating cults for over five years; responsible for separating 128 young people from cults.
maurice davis— BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PARTICIPANTS – INFORMATION MEETING ON THE CULT PHENOMENON IN THE UNITED STATES, February 5, 1979, 318 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. [Between pages 18-19 of Transcript of Proceedings]. The Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979), Joint-Congressional Proceedings, Chaired by Senator Bob Dole
"It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: ‘Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?’" Holder wrote. "The answer to that question is no."
eric holder— Five questions: Targeting Americans on U.S. soil, CNN, March 8, 2013.
Ludwig’s penetrating observations, though presented in a lighthearted and entertaining way, offer important insight into why humans have engaged in war throughout recorded history as well as suggesting how they might live together in peace.
arnold m. ludwig— Booknotes (C-SPAN) review of King of the Mountain (2002)
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.
leo strauss— p. 4 (Natural Right and History (1953))
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
— A Dictionary of Thoughts, p. 88.
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.”
— Quinn Cummings, in The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling, p.21
It has been a general rule for drawing deeds and other legal documents from the earliest times, which one is taught when one first becomes a pupil to a conveyancer, never to change the form of words unless you are going to change the meaning, and it would be as well if those who are engaged in the preparation of Acts of Parliament would bear in mind that that is the real principle of construction.
— Blackburn, J., Hadley v. Perks (1866), L. R. 1Q. B. 457.
Previous war-presidents have gathered opponents into their cabinets, reached out to estranged former allies, engaged in aggressive diplomacy to maximize effectiveness and rallied the whole country for the fight.
— Andrew Sullivan (2007) "War Council", The Daily Dish (2007-09-19)
Murderer, pedophile, rapist, robber, slave owner, thief, thug and warlord. He called for and engaged in mass slaughter of those who refused to convert or submit to Islam.
— Richard Crandall, "Islam: The Enemy", p. 9.
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and Christianity.
— Joseph McCarthy speech at Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950).
This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now . And instead of calling it work , realize it is play.
— Alan Watts, in The Essence of Alan Watts (1977)
The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate— Ego 6, p. 199, June 26, 1943.
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
neville cardus— Manchester Guardian (1958)
We sat in the car park till twenty to one And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.
john betjeman— "A Subaltern's Love-song" line 43.
Radio atmospherics is one of numerous projects underway at the US Navy Electronics Laboratory, which has its headquarters in San Diego... The laboratory is operated by the Bureau of Ships and is engaged not only in research but also in development and "systems engineering" by which new ideas are converted into practical pieces of equipment for use by the fleet.
— Article "Navy explores the air waves". In: Popular Mechanics. Vol. 91. March 1949. p.89
I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea .
— G. K. Chesterton, in The Defendant, ReadHowYouWant.com, 6 May 2009, p.113
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects... Love is the answer, we sing. ...our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic albeit desperate conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.
rollo may— Love and Will (1969, pg. 100)
