"We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward."
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"It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies."
"The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers."
"The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it."
"The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects."
"Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."
"If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!"
"Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong."
"Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all."
"A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete."
"I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral."
"I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy."
"Even if I sometimes have some somewhat negative thoughts, for instance, if I see them in somebody else's movie, I feel jealous and possessive."
"Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble after tapes surfaced of him saying negative things about other Republicans. Actually the Schwarzenegger tapes surfaced last year, but they weren't deciphered until this week."
"I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me."
"They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative"
"Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?"
"Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities."
"When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow.""
"i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence."