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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
Hate
People
Will
Sense
Gone
Pain
Once
Hates
Forced
Because
Deal
Cling
Reasons
Imagine
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi
Winter
Brainy
Own
Autumn
Our
Everything
Though
Point
Point Of View
Like
Permanence
Pass
Opinions
Cling
Gradually
Depended
View
Away
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
Religion
People
Sentiment
Way
Bitter
Guns
Like
Cling
Surprising
Antipathy
Get
Explain
Frustrations
Them
Then
Who
The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
God
World
Changed
Changes
Changing
Never
Safe
Him
Cling
Going
Keep
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
Henri Nouwen
Great
Enemy
Fear
Other
Intimacy
Great Enemy
Run
True
Makes
Does
Cling
Us
Create
Each
Away
The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
Vladimir Putin
Try
Focus
Power
Politician
Every
Worst
Worst Thing
Possible
Only
Cling
Means
Thing
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand
Life
Faith
Words
Enthusiasm
Argument
Our
Way
Must
Exact
Small
Magnificence
Through
Excitement
Empty
Cling
Condition
Intellectual
Squander
Which
Treasure
Coin
The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.
Simon Sinek
Hope
Failure
Better
Will
Face
Cowards
Too
Guarding
Danger
Eye
Sloppy
Never
Leaders
Look
Most
Because
Cling
Exists
Effective
Contrast
May
Just
Afraid
Happen
Acknowledge
Against
Actually
Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.
Michael Mina
Food
Mom
You
Soul
Sick
Recipe
Secret
Eat
Both
Clear
Feeds
Also
Balanced
Balanced Diet
Cling
Noodle
Soup
Chicken
Diet
Body
Your
Reasons
How we need another soul to cling to.
Sylvia Plath
Soul
Another
How
Cling
Need
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Allen Ginsberg
Alive
Possible
Fact
Got
Cling
Normal
Person
Decent
Which
Fully
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan
Selfish
Imagination
Desperately
Our
Cling
Existence
Escape
Want
Commonplace
Chains
Imagine
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
Henri Nouwen
Strength
People
Will
Faithful
Expectation
Own
Nothing
Thinking
Others
Our
Ourselves
Weakness
Must
Open
Shared
Freely
Cling
Cease
Itself
Privileges
Manifest
Who
Defend
Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
Jacque Fresco
Old
Values
Creation
Consider
Consideration
System
Ourselves
Accept
Although
Without
Still
Cling
Encourages
Shortages
Us
Breeds
Many
Monetary
Sufficient
Actually
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
C. Wright Mills
Government
Political
Machine
Moral
Moral Issues
Disturbed
Over
Economy
Wishing
Sort
Balancing
Cling
Issues
Political Economy
American
Automatic
Interests
Notion
Competing
It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
Gabriel Byrne
Alone
Illusion
Live
Born
Charlie
Charlie Sheen
Give
Voltaire
Between
Sheen
Said
Cling
Die
Anything
In-Between
Either
Us
Who
The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
Judith Tarr
Truth
Determined
More
Facts
Cling
His
Bigot
Shows
Belief
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
Nancy Gibbs
Love
Hate
Sometimes
School
Devil
Seniors
Think
Those
April
Kids
High
High School
About
Haunted
Know
House
Because
Cling
End
Up
Act
Hard
Who
Even
Near
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette
Love
Man
Give
Something
Come
Arms
Him
Cling
Warm
Stand
Your
Two
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Yann Martel
Faith
You
Trust
Cling
Go
Whereas
Fanatics
Belief
Let Go
Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve.
Basil Hume
Prayer
You
Christ
Will
Face
Those
See
More
Clearly
Know
Him
How
Cling
Then
Whom
Serve
I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.
Brenton Thwaites
Home
Culture
Country
Whatever
Back
Make
Cling
Go
Australia
Want
Stories
Movies
Multicultural
Many
Captured
I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in cling film and put that on.
Cate Blanchett
Great
Hair
Philip
Range
Wrap
Put
Got
Cling
Which
Fantastic
Use
Film
Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.
Christina Binkley
World
Girl
Nice
Our
Wear
Longer
Cling
Where
Conform
Social
Skirts
My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.
Chuck Berry
Life
Day
Righteousness
Try
My Life
Year
Down
Christian
Boring
Most
Sinful
Cling
Surroundings
Did
After
Washed
I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?
David Suzuki
Country
Year
Live
Every
Humiliated
Must
Percent
More
Only
Factor
Consumption
Feel
Maintain
Demands
Cling
Continue
Current
Notion
Exponential
Grow
Why
Level
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