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When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems… — Howard Martin
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no… — Kenneth Grahame
Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. — John Spence
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as… — Mary Wollstonecraft
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought… — Paul McCartney
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life,… — Saint Augustine
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels… — Angela Carter
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book. — Edward Abbey
I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am… — Edward Abbey
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. — Thomas Jefferson
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment… — Richard Avedon
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a… — Georgia O'Keeffe
I wish we had all been born birds instead. — Kurt Vonnegut
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them. — Wayne Gretzky
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the… — John Mica
If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive… — Erich Fromm
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as… — John Stuart Mill
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the… — John Stuart Mill
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining… — Joan Didion

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