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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the…
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…
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Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Jeannette Walls
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Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
— Ruth Hubbard
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The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one,…
— Dennis Kucinich
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There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive…
— Christopher Peterson
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As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but…
— Benjamin Wiker
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can…
— Tony Buzan
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Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false…
— Robert K. Merton
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