Quotes with adopting

  • You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
  • There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Hans Selye Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Barry Commoner By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bunker Roy The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Billy Idol When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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