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Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Long
  • Business
  • Father

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Book
  • House

• There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

  

  Paula Deen
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Real
  • History
  • English

• If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

  

  Ken Thompson

• Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that these are just normal people that have incredible powers that are relatable in some ways - in that we don't have great super powers, but there's strength within us that we can utilize in our lives. Ultimately, they're just normal people with problems.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

  

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