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Quotes
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Authors
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Susan Jeffers
"There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic."
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Susan Jeffers
#Reality Quotes
#Negative Quotes
#Assumption Quotes
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“A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.”
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“I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.”
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“Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere. ... We don't often tend to think about the social sciences (history, economics and politics) as subcategories of ecology. But since people are organisms, it is apparent that we must first understand the principles of ecology if we are to make sense of the events in the human world.”
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“Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?”
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“I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.”
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“Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.”
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“I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.”
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“The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.”