Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
The ability to allow or even make room for reactivity in the other, without reciprocating, creates the best chance that both partners can go on to their next relationships with the least amount of emotional baggage.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.
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The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.
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Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
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The ability to allow or even make room for reactivity in the other, without reciprocating, creates the best chance that both partners can go on to their next relationships with the least amount of emotional baggage.
