"How can you argue with a woman who won't?"

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Arguing Quotes

“Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.”
“When one misses an opportunity one is apt to fancy that another will never present itself.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1891). “Letters of Marie Bashkirtseff”, London : Cassell
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.”
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
“You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.”
“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”
“If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. Whatâ€™s more, when you choose to act, youâ€™re able to succeed more frequently than you think. How often in life do we avoid doing something because we think weâ€™ll fail? Is failure really worse than doing nothing? And how often might we actually have triumphed if we had just decided to give it a try?”
“Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are making an important decision first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it's farther away make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality.”

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