Distorted Quotes
205 quotes by 190 authors
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
— John Bradshaw
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really…
— Tracy Chapman
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted…
— John Henrik Clarke
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There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
— Hillary Clinton
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three…
— Stephen Covey
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by…
— Martin Gardner
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
— Samuel Johnson
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But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If we do not control our minds with our Buddha nature, do not practice seriously, are not honest to ourselves and do not examine our…
— Ching Hai
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Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of…
— Gough Whitlam
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I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And…
— Ronald Reagan
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The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men…
— Emma Watson
Who Wrote These Distorted Quotes
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