Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
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The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
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The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.
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It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.
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If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
