"So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile."
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"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way."
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"Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."
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"Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property."
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"I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative."
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"I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things."
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"In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day."
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"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
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"You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative."
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"Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay."
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"You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions."
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"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
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"The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history."
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"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
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"If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all."
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"People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives."
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"You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions."
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"Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality."
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"Most illness begins with a negative mind."
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