Carol Tavris Quotes
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell, 1946
Quotes to Explore
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Always stay true to yourselves.
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And that’s why we support societies that empower women - because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mothers, and our sisters and our daughters.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
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I grew up in the United States.
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The area extending from the Himalayas in the north to the sea and a thousand yojanas wide from east to west is the area of operation of the King-Emperor.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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Justice and truth are the common ties of society.
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
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We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell, 1946
