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    I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

by Ed Foreman Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to read more

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.

by E. V. Cooke Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens read more

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

by S. I. Hayakawa Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We read more

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

by Jean Baudrillard Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the read more

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

by G. S. Hillard Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

by William Nazlitt Found in: Negativity Quotes,
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