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“Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.”

World Persons Turns Communication Waste Baskets Nonviolent Communication Our Words Jackals

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.”

People Giving Persons Long Stills Sometimes Shows Pain Values Turns Strong Forget Taken Fans Stage Long Time Beats Entertainment Mike Forget You

Author:Axl Rose

“Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.”

Persons Reality Turns Opportunity Extraordinary Extraordinary Person

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.”

Persons Helping Seems Care Suffering Turns Can Do Groups Can Do Something Nobody Cares

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.”

“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”

Ifs Want Feels Persons Play Form Joy Song Turns Three Opportunity Minutes Love You Unique Musical Length Say I Love You Unique Opportunities

Author:Marsha Norman

“At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.”

Persons School Turns Records Ugly Mess Clumsy Speaking Out Detention Consecutive

Author:Simon Schama

“Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.”

People Feels May Persons Sometimes Turns Chance Streets Willing Towns Library Neighbor Circles Being The Best Friendly Pool Small Town Acquaintance Overlapping Lexington

Author:Kim Edwards

“I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?”

Knows Persons Doe Two Earth Turns Given Can Do Months Doctors Hey Relationship With God Two Months Hey You Shattering

Author:Si Robertson

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”

“I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Persons Problem Turns Social Hell Atheism Hearing Positive Atheism Proof Medical Collections Liability Vowels Consonants

Author:Frank Zappa

“I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.”

“There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for theother fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.”

Source: My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography

“If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.”

Ifs Persons God Turns Stupidity Upside Down Ankles

Author:Woody Allen