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• People do tend to fear and despise shamans but turn to them in times of desperation. Such a contradiction is a human characteristic, no? I'm more pulled to the human drama of shamans - their experience in society and identity struggles - than their transcendental power. Their drastic lives enable them to empathize with others and provide solace.

  Hyon Gyon

  Drama, Struggle, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One thing we know: Things will become even more destabilized if we don't step up Sino-U.S. cooperation. If you want to envisage a worst-case scenario, it is that Putin reveals step by step the inner weaknesses of the West, particularly in Europe, and the Chinese see in that an opportunity for emulation in the Far East, and then step by step through a gradual process we will be witnessing the emergence of Sino-Russian partnership in favor of a drastic change in the global balance of power.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Opportunity, Chinese, Balance

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Trying, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's not gonna be any tuition cuts. There aren't gonna be any drastic reductions in salaries. And in fact when the subject of cuts comes up, the first thing that the opponents of cuts say, "You can't cut this faculty. You can't cut the salaries. You wouldn't save enough money, you can't go there."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Salary, Tuition

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.

  Gary Player

  Philosophy, Fighting, Turkeys

  Source: blog.vegansa.com

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• Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

  Damian Marley

  People, Trying, Poverty

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  Samantha Bond

  Middle, Pops, Sensational

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• The higher the heel, the more drastic it can get. But I do need heels to perform, which is strange. I can't perform in flats because I've built up this...I don't know, this sexual side that I find myself moving and getting into the music more when I'm feeling a little more feminine.

  Sarah Barthel

  Moving, Feelings, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

  John Updike

  Atheist, Intellectual, Atheism

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.138, Random House

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• I would love to go for a bob. I want to do the chop and go drastic.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fate, Doe, Patient

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• Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Men, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

  George Carlin

  Book, Writing, Departure

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• We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!

  Clare Grogan

  People, Black, Evening

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• I didn't realize what I was doing, but once I realized, I was like "this is a gift, let me do this the right way." I don't gotta rush nothing, I don't have to be impatient. Because when you have a gift with something, it's a blessing. You just use it. You don't have to do anything drastic, because it's in you. People told me what it was, and I just stuck with it.

  The Jacka

  Blessing, People, Realizing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

  Keith Jarrett

  Musician, Chance, Should

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• We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Ideas, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Doors

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• Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

  Veronica Roth

  Sometimes, Drastic Change

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• Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.

  Don Aitkin

  Media, Data, People

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• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

  John Updike

  Atheist, Humanity, Intellectual

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.141, Random House

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are. . . . Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware . . . still clinging to things that no longer exist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Views, Names, People

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• Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  War, Groups, Elements

  Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.259, Routledge

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• While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Men, Political

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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