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"When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation."
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"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."

"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."

"In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless."

"When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me."

"If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'."

"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."

"Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!"

"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."

"When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one's socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ['Another empty room']"

"If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away."
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"I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart."


"When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation."
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