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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
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"I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative."

"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations."

"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."

"We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe."

"The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things."

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."

"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by."

"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."
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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."

"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."

"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."

"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."

"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
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