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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Warren Buffett

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Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined. Ellen G. White

Love Alone Selfish Win Result Will Duty Soften Neglected Willful Must Similar Properly Blended Stern Headstrong Make Disciplined Without Left May Children Order While Stand Perverse

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. Barack Obama

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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern. Octavio Paz

Cause Ethics Language Relations Our Minds Worrisome Ease Disturbing Fact Between Concern Accept Rhetoric Which Perverse Games Less Twisted

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould

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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. Hedy Lamarr

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in. Annette Bening

Saying Time Myself Try To Be Honest Our Everything Able About Scary Something Feel Because Makeup Psychological Which Interested Inappropriate Us Much Explore Exploring Perverse Honest

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy. David Blunkett

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that. David Kay

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. Erik Larson

Me Book Tells Someone Instantly Read Very Perverse

You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over. Gil Penchina

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement. Gina McKee

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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless. Harlan Coben

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? Iain Sinclair

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A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities. Jerome Powell

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I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement. John Cusack

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Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard? John Waters

You Most Heard Perverse Ever Thing

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall. Kevin McDonald

Kids Would Would-Be Silly Hall Anything Perverse

Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges. Letitia James

Challenges Competition Face Nation Drawn Districts Rarely Lawmakers Around Up Precision Legislators Aversion Perverse Competitive

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting. Marianne Faithfull

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