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passively

Adverb

Meaning

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

As a passive verb; in the passive voice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Bill Watterson

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King Jr.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. David Eagleman

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve. William Ernest Hocking

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Matt Taibbi

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. Corazon Aquino

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