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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't…
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved…
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who…
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Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when…
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It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments,…
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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what…
— Daniel Pauly
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It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you…
— Lights
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We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of…
— Richard Heinberg
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We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust…
— Dan Rather
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Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
— Ellen Goodman
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When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down,…
— Michael Haneke
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept…
— Charles Bukowski
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life…
— Julian Barnes
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