Deborah Tannen Quotes
The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.
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I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.
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The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
