"One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't "win," you won't change anyone's mind, you won't change any votes, you won't make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won't feel any better."

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Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

Carolyn Hax

#Winning Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #Mind Quotes

“My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.”

Source : "Sandra Lee Talks To Vogue About Her Belly, Favorite Designers & Marrying Andrew Cuomo", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.
“They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.”

Source : Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.107, Vintage
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.”

Source : Brother David Steindl-Rast (2008). “Words Of Common Sense”, p.10, Templeton Foundation Press
“There's always something to talk about.”
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”
“I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.”
“When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'”

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