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One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. Marianne Williamson

Myself Day Compassion Pain Too Once One Day Something Rather Develop Had Looked Because Surprise Been Begin Than Did Unexpected Realized Painful Avoiding Mechanism Flooded Coping Necessary

What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more? Mike Barnicle

Faith Forgiveness Anger Soul Heart Hate Revenge Rage Type Way Those More Could Emotion Consume Combat Ultimately Heart And Soul Person Mechanism Element Deepest Coping Thirst

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' Joseph Stiglitz

Politics Vote Destruction Better Economics System Seeing Seemed Through Better Off Instead Supposed Democratic Globalization Make Trade Opposed Accompanied Were Dollar Off Person Closer Moved Us Mechanism Ever

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves. Dan Ariely

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion. John Singleton

Service Me Passion Defense Defense Mechanism Way Kind Guy Had Developed Like Because Up Precedent Survive Any Grew To Survive Hollywood Mechanism Hardly Streets Career

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven. Laura Esquivel

Me You Wise Women Darkness Light Moon Men Think Sun Perfect Knew Reach Doing Were Exist Women Are Very Gods Same Forgive Forgive Me Heaven Created Use Fortunate Certainly Reason Mechanism Boldness Serpent Eagle

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. Monica Raymund

Survival Defense Defense Mechanism Lying Only Also Mechanism Technique Coping

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. Daniel Kahneman

News Bad Give Bad News Contain Priority Brains Mechanism Designed Humans

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. Max Born

Success God World Made Predict Our Solve Imperfect Perfect He Conceded Fair Parts Equations Least Intellect Dice Order Little Much Use Mechanism Differential Need

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role. Dick Cheney

Government Problem Financial Society Only Federal Federal Reserve Got Fix Role Legitimate Agencies Regulator Mechanism Reserve Treasury

Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. Michio Kaku

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes. Mikhail Gorbachev

God Mistakes Think Punish Those Some He Make Uses Mechanism

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. Robert Redford

Sundance Voices New Talent Discovery Mechanism Started

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. A. S. Byatt

Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate. Alex Gibney

You Christ Church Power Control Only Never Priests Because Preached Celibate Should Reason Who Mechanism Jesus Jesus Christ

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. Alfred North Whitehead

Life Universe Directed Offensive Against Mechanism

A big part of becoming a funny person was a major defense mechanism. Onstage, especially as a woman, I've had to be really tough. The second you show a crack, the audience can literally leave. Amy Schumer

Funny You Woman Tough Big Defense Defense Mechanism Funny Person Onstage Had Part Major Audience Becoming Leave Crack Person Big Part Literally Really Show Mechanism Second

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. Ani DiFranco

Life Music Myself Me Anger Chill Everyday Life Own Everyday Way Bit Out About My Own Having More Had True Like Learn Always How Been Trying Politically Chill Out Place Little Little Bit Mechanism Express Helps Things

I know that there was a public disclosure mechanism in my financial forms. Anthony Scaramucci

Financial Know Disclosure Forms Public Mechanism

Does any woman really just come in and say, 'I'm a plus-size woman?' Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe as a way to kind of cope with fitting into society but... I just think it's divisive. Ashley Graham

Woman Think Society Defense Defense Mechanism Way Say Kind Divisive Come Does Fitting Any Maybe Just Really Mechanism Cope

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives. Aubrey de Grey

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. August Strindberg

Life Character Man Complicated Simple Relationships Extremely Only Point Point Of View He Piece Often So-Called View Mechanism

The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes. Baruj Benacerraf

Understanding Control Approach Detailed Determine Study Genes Most Identification Exert Proven Which Processes Successful Mechanism Biological Phenomena

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