538 Quotes About Nonfiction
- Author David Richo
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When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
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- Author David Richo
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Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing.
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- Author Yuval Noah Harari
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Consistency is the playground of dull minds
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- Author Bethenny Frankel
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Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.
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- Author Trevor Noah
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—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.
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- Author Malcolm Gladwell
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Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).
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- Author Loung Ung
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I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
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- Author Erik Larson
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No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
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- Author Sheryl WuDunn
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Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.
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