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"Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote."
George Gurdjieff
"Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote."
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"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
Willie Nelson
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
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"Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan."
John Bates Clark
"Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan."
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"None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity."
Said Musa
"None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity."
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"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."
Phylicia Rashad
"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."
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"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
Mary McCarthy
"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
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"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
Peter Jennings
"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
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"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."
Jean Baudrillard
"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."
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"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment."
Walther Bothe
"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment."
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"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
Imre Lakatos
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
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"Accent your positive and delete your negative."
Donna Karan
"Accent your positive and delete your negative."
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"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
Ansel Adams
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
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"I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images."
Sammy Hagar
"I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images."
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"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
Michael Jordan
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
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"An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction."
Johannes Stark
"An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction."
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"I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad."
John Edward
"I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad."
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"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
Charles Lyell
"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
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"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."
Brian Koslow
"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."
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"Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference."
Hugh Prather
"Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference."
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"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
David Bowie
"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
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"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
Peter L. Berger
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
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"Diva has a negative connotation."
Glenn Close
"Diva has a negative connotation."
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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
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"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
John Newcombe
"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
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"You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others."
Jane Roberts
"You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others."
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"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
James A. Baldwin
"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
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"Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability."
Claude Shannon
"Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability."
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"Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely."
Tom Glazer
"Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely."
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"It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way."
Randy Harrison
"It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way."
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"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
Ansel Adams
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
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"Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use."
Sai Baba
"Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use."
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"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."
John Shadegg
"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."
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"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion."
John McDonald
"There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion."
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"I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't."
Olga Korbut
"I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't."
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"I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state."
Gray Davis
"I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state."
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"And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed."
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
"And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed."
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"The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always."
Mark E. Hyman
"The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always."
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"It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads."
Scott McCallum
"It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads."
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"Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions."
Marilu Henner
"Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions."
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
Carl D. Anderson
"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
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"I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country."
Genevieve Gorder
"I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country."
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"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"
Karl Schlegel
"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"
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"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
Eugenio Montale
"But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty."
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"I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done."
Franklin Raines
"I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done."
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"Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly."
Harold Stephen Black
"Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly."
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"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."
Vernon Howard
"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."
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"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."
Vernon Howard
"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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"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
Alan Watts
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
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"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
Matthew Modine
"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
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"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
George Woodcock
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
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