M. Scott Peck Quotes
If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
Quotes to Explore
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New York is my home.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
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I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
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There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.
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What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 year old fans want.
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My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
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I've been learning French a bit through my work with Longchamp, and I've been in France quite a lot. And I really love how they express themselves. I especially love when something is untranslatable.
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The reach of Coke and McDonald's is undeniable, and I'm thrilled these iconic brands are joining forces to inspire local communities through messages of peace and motivation in unique ways. It's an added bonus that they are using the lyrics to 'Rise Up' as a part of those messages.
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I'm living what I always wanted to do.
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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
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If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity with the policies established during the Greenspan years.
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As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
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Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product.
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Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.
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I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.
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If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.
