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• Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.

  Betsy Landin

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Purpose, Might

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

  Mark Satin

  War, Exercise, Thinking

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• Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

  Jennifer Young

  Positive Thinking, Creating, Choices

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• My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Patience, Dedication, Development

  "Gustavo Dudamel and London: a special relationship" by Marshall Marcus, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2012.

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• As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.

  Alexander Lowen

  Ocean, Animal, Space

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• To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

  Barbara Walters

  Dream, Helping Others, Gains

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• Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

  Grover Cleveland

  Loyalty, Government, Law

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

  Bipasha Basu

  Adjectives, Proud, Way

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• But as long as we think positively, I’m sure a solution will appear.

  Jonas Jonasson

  Thinking, Long, Think Positively

  Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.283, Hachette UK

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• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

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• A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Teeth, Needs

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Bible, Book, Garden

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• There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Views, Understanding, Firsts

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• Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

  Jerome Groopman

  Hope, Thinking, Reality

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.6, Random House

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  Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Attitude, Thinking, Giving

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Light, Strange, Consideration

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively unpleasant. Consciously or not some persons look upon God as a hard taskmaster, or a severe parent. . . . The truth is that the will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, newer and brighter experience, wider opportunity of service to others-life more abundant.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Mistake, Mean

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• True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one - to be imposed on the other side if necessary - that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship

  Tony Buzan

  Views, Sides, Determined

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• Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Positive Thinking, Giving, Pay

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

  William James

  Philosophical, Eye, Reality

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're brought in on a fun ride, and slowly you fall into it as James [actor James McAvoy's character, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan] does. Nicholas is like the audience. I think it's a good ride for people. And you learn something, as well.

  Forest Whitaker

  Kings, Fun, Fall

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Purpose, Might

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• Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Next, Good Work

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.264

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• I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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