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"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
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"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
"Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary."
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Personal Development
"To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido."
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Personal Development
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
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Personal Development
"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'."
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Personal Development
"For most people the environment controls them rather than being in full control of experiences."
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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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Personal Development
"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."
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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."
Love
"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."
Time
"We in middle age require adventure."
Age
"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
Habit
"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
Adaptation
"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."
Woman
"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
Animals
"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."
Life
"You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care."
Care
"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
Man
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