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«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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«The real miracle of individuation and reclamation of the Wild Woman is that we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.»
Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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«The one thing you can?t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one?s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.»
Author: Viktor Frankl
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«Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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«There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
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«The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
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leaders, patrol, patrolling, patrols, respond, scoutmaster, Scoutmasters
«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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«Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.»
«Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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«The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources»
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