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As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel… — Deborra-Lee Furness
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused,… — Heather Mills
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. — George MacDonald
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events. — Steve Pavlina
In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing… — Os Guinness
I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small.… — Jillian Michaels
Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides, perfect is boring. Today, instead of picking yourself apart in… — Jillian Michaels
Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger. — Ashoka
If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women.… — Michel Odent
Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins! — Jessica Simpson
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead… — Tony Robbins
Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray… — Bruce Willis
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… — David Foster Wallace
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer — Dan Simmons
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming… — Denis Waitley
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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