Quotes 11061 till 11080 of 12035.
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When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
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When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Source: Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press -
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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