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• If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

  Harriet Lerner

  Inspirational, Trying, Different

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1986). “The dance of anger: a woman's guide to changing the patterns of intimate relationships”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Hard Times, Numbers

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• Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feel Better, Science

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• The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Science, Meditation

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• Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.

  Ian Kershaw

  Long, History, Special

  Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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• A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Father, Lying, Home

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• TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces:
  If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Simple, Odds, Long

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• There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'

  Leonard Nimoy

  Home, Hands, House

  "POTUS, Trekkie". Interview with Ben Smith, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides a way of thinking. And I think those two structures - one highly logical, the other anything but - are always part of my thought process as I'm putting together a story.

  Brian Evenson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Two

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• ... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Differences, Variation, Facts

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.

  George W. Bush

  Baby, Humor, Talking

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• I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Character

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• There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.

  Hank Aaron

  Girl, Baseball, Sex

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• To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.

  Mark Kac

  Survival, Vitality, Doe

  Mark Kac, Stanislaw M. Ulam (1968). “Mathematics and Logic”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

  John Krasinski

  Successful, Winning, World

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• The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

  Mary Pickford

  Simplicity, Way, Silent

  "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs!

  Ron Paul

  Government, Air, Atmosphere

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• Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong about their facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Psychological Disorders, Play

  "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

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• Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Mean, Law

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• The Patriot Act was used against me in total contradiction to its stated purpose. Or perhaps it was the most logical use of the law, since it establishes a legal framework to crush free thinking and interrupt individual questioning of the government. It is the beginning of all dictatorship in America.

  Susan Lindauer

  Crush, Thinking, Government

  "Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act". Interview with Michael Collins, www.scoop.co.nz. March 10, 2009.

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• Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Discovery, Expression

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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