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“Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.”

“It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.”

Said Past Half Clear Cutting Written Productions Following Decades Instance Tragic Commodity Vocabulary Clear Cutting Spoken English

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my past life I was assassinated. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.”

Believe Past I Believe Honest I Believe In Instance My Past Past Life

Author:Kesha

“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”

Men Has Beens Matter Past Sin Cities Ignorance Destruction Supreme Ships Guilty Instance What Matters Captains Crew Wickedness Wrecks Sinking

Book:Plato's Statesman

Source: Plato's Statesman

“Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.”

Past Differences Cases Particular Being True Instance Hypothesis Future Time

Book:Theory of Scientific Method

Source: Theory of Scientific Method

“In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.”

Years May Different Past Moving Term Party Europe Seven Instance France Shallow Seven Years

Author:Mitt Romney

“There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.”

Men Kind Age Past Records Overcoming Miracle Prejudice Remains Instance Despise Signals

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan