{"quotes":[{"text":"There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["disengagement","giving-up","strategy"],"id":46501,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["attention","change","curiosity","disengagement","improvement","news","politics"],"id":122576,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["annoyance","coward","disengagement","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","fooling-around","heartfelt","in-love","left","love","michael-bassey-johnson","separation","temporary","temporary-condition","true-love","unfinished","unfinished-business"],"id":177057,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?","author":"Alex 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feminine seeks connection through union, likewise the masculine seeks freedom through disengagement.","author":"Nityananda Das","tags":["connection","disengagement","feminine","freedom","masculine","union"],"id":372877,"author_id":"Nityananda+Das"},{"text":"What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit?","author":"Holly Sprink","tags":["belief","culture","disengagement","engagement","moral-choices"],"id":395044,"author_id":"Holly+Sprink"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}