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Jonathan Raban : Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. # Rejection

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E M Cioran : " Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. " # Rejection

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Ursula K Le Guin : " In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. " # Rejection

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape. We who are Liberals once held Liberalism lightly as a truism. Now it has been disputed, and we hold it fiercely as a faith. We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable, and thought little more about it. Now we know it to be unreasonable, and know it to be right. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed. " # Rejection

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Zig Ziglar : " Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others? " # Rejection

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Les Brown : " Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. " # Rejection

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Campbell : " The adventure is its own reward — but it's necessarily dangerous, having both negative and positive possibilities, all of them beyond control. " # Rejection

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Alfred A Montapert : " Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. " # Rejection

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Vernon Grounds : " Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. " # Rejection

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Kurt Donald Cobain : " I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned. " # Rejection

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Sugar Ray Robinson : " I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. " # Rejection

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Jonathan Raban: " One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily." # Family # Marriage # Happiness

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Jonathan Raban: " Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things." # Travel and Tourism # Love # Books - Reading

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Jonathan Raban: " There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence." # Motives # Action # Death and Dying

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Jonathan Raban: " Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted." # Rejection

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Jonathan Raban: " Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture." # Cities and City Life # Arts and Artists # Architecture

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