Abraham J. Twerski Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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The earth shall be left to no one.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.
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From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
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When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory.
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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
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There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
