Negative Quotes
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Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.
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Around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why.
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
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I'm not dismayed that poetry's appeal is limited in scope. That's why we have National Poetry Month. It's a sign of its neglect, which isn't necessarily a negative thing. It's not like we have National TV Month.
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I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
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Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.
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Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
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The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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Of course we all break and we all cry and stumble. It's whether you allow the negative experiences to define you or shape you and make you become who you are in the best possible way. You use them as tools.
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It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.
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I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
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It’s counterproductive to be negative. I know it’s heavy times; I know it’s rough, but we’re going to be OK. It’s been worse actually … we’ve been here before and actually came out victorious, so I just have to believe that we will again.
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I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.
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Worry is negative goal setting.
