"Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative."
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"I think the changes that have happened, there have been come positive, but by and large, you have to say the changes have been negative. The situation has reached a fairly critical stage in Afghanistan."
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"A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training."
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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof"
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"Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other."
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"I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it."
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"What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them."
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"It has been reported that Rudolph Giuliani has trademarked the name 'Rudolph Giuliani' so other candidates can't use his name in negative campaign ads. ... For similar reasons, Hillary Clinton has trademarked the words 'ballbuster,' 'castrater,' and 'nutcruncher.'"
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"Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused."
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"Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements."
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"Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement."
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"The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance."
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"So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind."
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"Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa."
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"Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically."
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"If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative."
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"When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative."
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"I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people."
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"The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities."
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"When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible."
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