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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock

Trust Degree Men Entitled Exact Able Knowing Another Expect Dishonesty

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. Steven Pinker

Truth Time People Simple Long Hypocrisy Other Others Innuendo Say Lay Talk Lines Lot Expect Role Same Human Same Time Mean Plain Manner Engage Profess Each Universal Playing Vagueness

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom. Tommy Douglas

Freedom People Setting Way Protect Another Spy

I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind. Tory Lanez

Life Thankful God My Life Changed Also Still Grind

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. Yousuf Karsh

Heart Mind Before Think True Opening Look Camera Lens Shutter

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Agnes Macphail

Myself Women Equality Other Absolute Want

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. Alan Thicke

Fitness Needs Perceived Subconsciously Avoid Games Fun

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect. Alanis Morissette

Love Funny You Way Perfect Just Love You

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. Ann Voskamp

Thankful Beautiful Good Change Joy World Light Focus Thanks All The World All Things Give Small True Discover Brave Agents Who Fullest Even Now Things Bring Here

I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two. Cameron Mathison

Work Time Relationship You Business Husband And Wife Sometimes Try Wife Focus Degree Free Husband Lose Busy Kids Focused Possibly Stay Stay Focused Some Free Time Hours Make Sure Real Been Lot Us Really Your Keep Two

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock. Carl Honore

Best You Dog World Down Bath Meet Meeting Emails Those Rushing Voice Seldom Come Ideas Make Deadline Juggling Hammock Heard Walking Soaking Upside Upside Down Turn Your Eureka Moments Swinging

Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive. Chris Hadfield

Me Risks Worth Taking Risks Think Worth It Willing Risk Take Taking Make Sure Sake Survive Just Worked Hard

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it. Chris Hadfield

Me You People Key Fear Looking Whatever Live Back Circumstances Out Fearful About Faced Hairs Come Terms React Because Makes How Lot Up Get Going Then Certain Figured Figuring Elements Deeply Neck Set

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. David Rakoff

Everybody Wired Instinctual Altruism Flipped Switch Innate

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.' David Suzuki

Future Creative Memory Creativity Made Gave Those Characteristics Something Invented Vast Had Advantage Idea Were Brain Very Curiosity Curious Did Human Storage Human Brain Us Special

Christmas makes everything twice as sad. Douglas Coupland

Sad Christmas Everything Makes Twice

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me. Drake

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along. Drake

Me Never Disappointed Along Him Because How Exist Friends Expect Get Just Anymore Anything Again Cool Dad

The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything. Elizabeth Thornton

Truth Best Good Truth Is Whatever Not Good Enough Think Society Enough Everything Top Hierarchy About Mental Percent Been Very Model Just Established Then Us Pervasive Many Reinforce Socialized Competitive

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