William Throsby Bridges Quotes
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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Never take yourself too seriously.
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Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
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One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
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Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
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I've watched it on and off. I don't know why everyone is fascinated by it.
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
