“ The wish for instant gratification undermines the strengths of both individual and collective enterprise. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ I'm not the one who was elected. Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues, she emphasized, I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. ”
- Laura Bush- Copy
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“ Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ Most people feel like a fraud when they assume a new role. Unaware that this is a normal experience, they fear being exposed. Such fear inhibits spontaneous creativity and undermines your ability to work at optimal speed. Accept that feeling, and unlock your creative responses to change. ”
- Ronit Herzfeld- Copy
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“ To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated. ”
- Martin Seligman- Copy
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“ Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?". ”
- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan- Copy
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“ I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone… ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues nonnegotiable demands may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his victory the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. ”
- Patty Murray- Copy
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“ Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights… ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life upon a broad foundation — which means not to require a great many things in order to be happy. Happiness on such a foundation is the most easily undermined. It offers many more opportunities for accidents; and accidents are always happening. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ We're fighting on many fronts, and Iraq is now the central front. Saddam holdouts and foreign terrorists are trying desperately to undermine Iraq's progress and to throw that country into chaos. The terrorists in Iraq believe their attacks on innocent people will weaken our resolve… ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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