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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Ransom

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• If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Waiting, Truthful

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• The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

  Reverend Ike

  Poor, Ministers, Needy

  "The golden gospel of Reverend Ike" by Clayton Riley, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 1975.

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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Long, Isolation, Behavior

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Children, Mean

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• I am not sure any of the material in Leadership BS would be helpful for small companies and certainly not their owners. Of course, even owners have bosses and need to worry about keeping their jobs - so Power might be more appropriate.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Worry, Boss

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump`s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn`t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I`m not sure which one did more damage.

  Barney Frank

  Thinking, Criticism, Trying

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• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

  Diablo Cody

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  "Running with Diablo". Interview with Matt Smith, www.citypages.com. December 26, 2007.

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• Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

  Mark Haddon

  Mother, Nice, Mean

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• Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Boys, Littles, Way

  "A Discussion on Scripture Study". Interview with LaRene Porter Gaunt, www.lds.org. July, 2005.

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• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Lalla Ward

  Fog, Snow, Friendly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think being able to sit in the shoes of a woman and being able to manage products that are mostly sold to women, alongside a lot of female employees, is really helpful because you hold that empathy to the situation. You can understand where the customer is coming from.

  Maureen Chiquet

  Thinking, Empathy, Female

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Clothes, Life And Death

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• In New York, there's so much stuff going on all the time, and when I first moved here my productivity went down. I felt like I had certain social obligations. I found the more that I was like, "Don't listen to other music," or "Don't watch other things," and, "Don't go to other shows," for a specific time period, if I really need to complete something, that is the most helpful tool for me.

  Kissey

  Obligation, Moved, Productivity

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. When a witness hesitated, my mind would race to the conclusion that he was trying to hide something. What was it? I'd dissect the story in my brain and nine times out of ten figure out a hole they were trying to avoid.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mind, Brain, Trying

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

  Donald Miller

  Men, Feelings, Stuff Happens

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.

  Robert Moss

  Recovery, Thinking, Soul

  "Robert Moss:'If You Want to Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table'". Interview with Krysta Gibson, for the New Spirit Journal, July 2012, July 3, 2012.

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• Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

  Jed Diamond

  Healing, Lenses, Firsts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Book, Important, Trying

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Many people are probably better off avoiding therapists and using the resources and support available to us in everyday life. But therapy can be a chance to think things through with a professional in a calm, supportive and nonjudgmental atmosphere, and that can be helpful.

  Peter Kinderman

  Thinking, People, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Giving, Together

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

  Marcus Sakey

  Three, Four, Firsts

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Thinking, Goal, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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