"Living with anyone for many years takes skill.……" — Diane Ackerman
"Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways."
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
— Gary Bauer
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
— Wendy Carlos
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their…
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some…
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Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.
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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
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