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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Feet, Shoes

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  Patrick Swayze

  Fishing, Curiosity, Sides

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• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  Barry Gibb

  Liars, Australia, Leaving

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• Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

  John Green

  Hipster, Done, Errands

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

  Thomas Harris

  Writing, Digging, Done

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• Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Beauty, Art, Design

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• We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

  Pedro Noguera

  Education, Children, Learning

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Real, Live Life, Hard Work

  "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941". Book by Herbert Hoover, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1951.

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• Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.

  Charles Babbage

  Mean, Data, Here And There

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.

  John Fairclough

  Goal, Needs, Crash

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• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  W. G. Sebald

  Steps, Conscious, Results

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Funny, Play, Understanding

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

  Brenda Strong

  Crazy, Fall, Balance

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• There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.

  Hermann Joseph Muller

  Men, Ideas, Eugenics

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• The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  People, Tradition, Concerned

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• Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Soul, Morality

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8087, Delphi Classics

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• But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

  Feist

  Variables, Environment, Adaptation

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Business

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  "Roman Fountain".

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• It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.64

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• In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.

  Steve Case

  Ideas, World, Entrepreneurial

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Throughout my work, my subjects are being told that they must change their diet in order to make the adjustment into the new world. Our bodies must become lighter, and this means the elimination of heavy foods. During the sessions, my clients are repeatedly warned to stop eating meat (beef and pork especially), mainly because of the additives and chemicals that are being fed into the animals.

  Dolores Cannon

  Mean, Animal, Order

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