"When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are."

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Source : Twitter post from Sep 30, 2014

Robert Greene

#Emotion Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy.”
“We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.”
“One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it escalated so quickly. Within a week I was buying so many bottles I sounded like a wind chime walking down the street.”
“Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.”
“I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.”
“But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.”
“As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!”

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