"Accentuate the positive / Eliminate the negative."
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"I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life."
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"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
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"For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood."
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"The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds."
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"You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life."
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"...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of."
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"I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling."
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"Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent."
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"Don't let negative people determine your self-worth."
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"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
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"The negative is the score, and the print the performance."
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"Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before."
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"No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative."
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"Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance."
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"What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness."
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"Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted."
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"The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals."
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"Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues."
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"The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings."
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