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“Why can’t I change?? Why???????? You yell to the heavens, momentarily forgetting that you are not the leading character in a silent film being tied ceremoniously to a train track by a scurrilous villain with a handlebar mustache.”

Book:The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

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“Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. An acknowledgment of your power over us. This is the only form of servitude a Vladescu ever practices, and I perform it gladly for you. You, in turn, are obligated to accept graciously.”

Love Inspirational Enlightenment True

Book:Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

Source: Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

“Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which it soars to the truth.”

Reason Truth Faith

Book:Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

Source: Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity exchanged for a new suit, instead of gradually renewing themselves by patchwork…”

Change Progress Reformation

Book:The house of the seven gables

Source: The house of the seven gables

“You accept life as it is, you see it as it is before you can change it.”

Change

Book:Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)

Source: Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)

“One ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you’re freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark it’s stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties from Conservatives to Anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind wind.”

Truth Change Political Language

Book:Orwell on Truth

Source: Orwell on Truth

“The benefits (of smiling) not only has an ability of changing your momentary condition, but it is capable of having a prolonged effect upon the physiological makeup and structure of your brain.”

Change Brain Benefits Smiling Cognitive Physiological Asa Don Brown

Author:Asa Don Brown

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