"The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external."

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Martin Seligman

#Optimistic Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Style Quotes

“If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.”
“As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.”
“Once you start working out, you feel better and it becomes something you make time to do.”
“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”
“The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.”

Source : "An Arabic-English Lexicon". Book by Edward William Lane, Book I Part II, Jizya, p. 422, 1865.
“I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.”

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