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People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems. Marian Keyes

People Cause Problems Big Worry Bit Promise Part Also Stick Spouse Causes Shock Poorer Richer

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson

Health You Fear Fears Seed Contains House Because Self-Knowledge Question Just Afraid Information Them Explore Your Illness Why Treasure

Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action. Marilyn Ferguson

I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history. Marilyn Ferguson

History Change People Transformation Believe Society Meeting Critical Critical Mass Unprecedented Impact About Having Networking Almost Arithmetic Mass Sophistication Reached Undergone Geometric Effect Personal So Many People Energies Social Social Change Communications Many Brings

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress. Marilyn Ferguson

Problems Stress Rather Renewal Than Experienced Chance

If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking. Marilyn Ferguson

You Change Stress Inevitable Transformation Radical Thinking Changes Way Bad Resulting Bad Thing Sharp Leads Itself Very Useful Thing Start

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. Marilyn vos Savant

Success Our Weaknesses Developing Achieved Success Is Strengths

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. Marilyn vos Savant

Cell Phone Phone Other Oblivious Chattering Driving Between Talking Passenger Huge End Person Cell Difference While Your Speaking Away

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. Marilyn vos Savant

News Confusion Able Fact Between Opinion Notice Appears

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head. Marilyn vos Savant

You Fall Head Dizzy Feel Faint Know Hit Might Your

Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history. Mario Vargas Llosa

Today Failure History Wealth Better Dictatorship Revolution Radical Living Everybody Latin Latin American Total More Small More Or Less Brutal Exception Longest Know Parties Cuban American American History Produce Standard Less Conscious

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision. Mario Vargas Llosa

Life Love My Life Pretense Concentrated Principally Scientific Precision Love Stories Stories

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Mario Vargas Llosa

Freedom Invention Think Characters General Limited Historical Use

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. Marisha Pessl

People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you. Mark Barrowcliffe

Work You People Dog Smart Car Drive Nice Live Complain Those Kids Responsibilities Generally No-One Put Like House Schools Makes Foreign Go Up Exotic Forgetting Order Holidays Your Chose

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. Mark Steyn

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop. Mark Waid

Heroism Backdrop Regardless

Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible. Mark Waid

Indestructible Invincible Does Mean Utterly

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents. Marti Noxon

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