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• Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mean, Acceptance, Doe

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• I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Real, Thinking

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• Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Causes, Annoying

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• ..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

  James Lee Burke

  Drinking, Believe, School

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• I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.

  Nathaniel Buzolic

  Fans, Embarrassing, Embarrassed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Moving, Somewhere Else

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• I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

  Lakshmi

  Motivational, Country, Oil

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• I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn't in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Girl, Boys, Ultrasounds

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• In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Appearance, Glances

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• Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

  Frank Knight

  Education, Knowledge, Learning

  Frank H. Knight (2012). “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Successful, Thinking

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• We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Differences, Mirrors

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• I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

  Drake

  Perfection, Walks, Visuals

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Real, Lying, Names

  "General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science". Management Science, Volume 2. No. 3, pp. 197-208, www.panarchy.org. April 1956.

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• Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Acceptance, Men, Emotional

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• As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Quality, Flesh

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• No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Eye

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.131, Penguin

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• I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, Boredom, Lazy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 29, 2007.

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• Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Thinking, Knowing

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• The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Challenges, Gains, Tasks

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Thinking, Contentment, Easy

  Alain René Lesage (18??). “Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Le Sage”

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• The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritorious demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Retirement, Independent, Presidential

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• Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.

  Esther Hicks

  Strong, Decision, Desire

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• You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.

  John Kador

  Apology, Way, Interpersonal Skills

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