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“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?”
Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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“... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.”
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“The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'”
Source : "Speech by SEC Staff: The Evolving Mutual Fund Landscape: Adapting to the Challenges of Change". Remarks by Paul F. Roye, www.sec.gov. December 06, 2001.
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“I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.”
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“Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.”
Source : Michel Faber (2001). “Under the Skin”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.”
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“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”
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“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.”
Source : "Fictional character: Phil Connors". "Groundhog Day", www.imdb.com. 1993.