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"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']"
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"Rather than waste or eliminate items which you don't currently use, discover a new way to improve and enjoy their value. What strengths and talents can you repurpose for a new endeavor? How can you re-purpose your thoughts to ensure they help you rather than hinder?"
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Personal Development
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
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"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."
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Personal Development
"After awhile you could get used to anything."
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Personal Development
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way."
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Personal Development
"We continuously make promises and create agreements with ourselves and others. Some of these agreements are mutually beneficial. However, when you realize that things you agreed to in the past are no longer helpful, possible, or relevant, renegotiate. Be invested enough in your situations or relationships for renegotiation to take place."
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Personal Development
"In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."
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"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."
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"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
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"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
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"We in middle age require adventure."
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"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
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"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."
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"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
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"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."
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"You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care."
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