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• If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.

  Harry Benjamin

  Gay, Often Is, Made

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• I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

  Diane Lane

  Fun, Attitude, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Deceit, Culture, Conflict

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• I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever adjustment is necessary to give a little of your time-as little as two years-consecrating your strength, your means, your talents to the work of sharing with others the gospel, which is the source of so much of the good that you have. I promise that if you will do so, you will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Mean

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• Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

  Learned Hand

  Tangled, May, Matter

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Art, Yoga

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• When you refuse to pay attention to what life is saying to you, life will make its point very clear. Life wants us to be aware of ourselves so we can make the necessary adjustments in order to live more harmoniously.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Order, Attention, Want

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 27, 2017

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• To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Piano, Trying, Unemployment

  Henry Hazlitt (2016). “The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies”, p.542, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the best thing it can do under the circumstances. Consequently, if you are overweight, you may reasonably assume that the extra fat itself is your body's best adjustment to the circumstances you are providing.

  Jill Johnson

  Medicine, Doe, Body

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• I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.

  Johnny Damon

  Failing, Afraid To Fail, Has Beens

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• I wouldn’t be without my regular schedule of chiropractic adjustments because of my very strenuous schedule.

  Robert Goulet

  Schedules, Chiropractic

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• Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years. Remarkably we are even quite closely related to fruit and vegetables. About half the chemical functions that take place in a banana are fundamentally the same as the chemical functions that place in you. It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will ever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Vegetables, Profound

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• No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

  James Agee

  Education, Sick, Insanity

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

  John Bates Clark

  Men, Gains, Violence

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• Divorce isn't just the person, it's everything that goes with it - your kids, the adjustment, everything.

  Peter Andre

  Kids, Divorce, Persons

  "Did you know Peter Andre has kids? You didn't? Well, let him tell you all about them. Also: he can't mention their mother by name... WHAT?". www.mirror.co.uk. June 22, 2010.

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• We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

  Chris Christie

  Cost Of Living, People, Political

  "Christie Says He’ll Reject Bill to Lift N.J. Minimum Wage" by Terrence Dopp, www.bloomberg.com. June 8, 2012.

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• The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

  Andre Maurois

  Spring, Real, Writing

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• I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.

  Steve McNair

  Football, Running, Play

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• I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

  Adam Dunn

  Moving, Cities, Guy

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• Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

  Andruw Jones

  Years, Trying

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• It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Country, New York, Boys

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• A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'

  Jeff Francoeur

  Games, People, Littles

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• Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

  Alan Barth

  Art, Attitude, Spring

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