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The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us. ↗

— Jack McDevitt

#thought-provoking #love

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him. ↗

— John Green

#humor #thought-provoking #death

If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more... ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

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Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken. ↗

— Arbinger Institute

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They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity ↗

— James Riordan

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Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. ↗

— Kay Ryan

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Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land. ↗

— Timothy Findley

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Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#music #though-provoking #inspirational