"I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem."
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"When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want."
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"You could also say that a precious brand often has rituals associated with it. They reinforce the specialness of the brand. And of course the brand owner can help ensure those rituals are created."
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"I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it."
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"Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does."
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"My wife - she could help me get the negs out!"
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"The American accent is a little bit tricky. We grew up with American TV shows, so we've had a lot of exposure to it and that helps, but there's little nuances and little details. Sometimes there'll be just a phrase or couple words that are really difficult to get your mouth around. At the end of every season we go over and revoice anything that has sound issues, including my kiwi accent coming out."
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"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."
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"One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives."
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"I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted."
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"I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!"
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"Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill."
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"God helps those who help others."
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"The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible."
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"I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that."
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"The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard."
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"Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results."
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"And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless."
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"All religions begin with the cry Help."
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"I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one."
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