Quotes 61 till 80 of 94.
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Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
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People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
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