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"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."
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Personal Development
"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."
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Personal Development
"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."
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Personal Development
"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."
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Personal Development
"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."
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Personal Development
"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."
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Personal Development
"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."
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Personal Development
"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."
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Personal Development
"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."
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Personal Development
"Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!"
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"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
Success
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
Environment
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
Change
"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."
Now
"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
Growth
"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals."
Animals
"Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards."
Family
"Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success."
Success
"Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago."
Woman
"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."
Leadership
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