For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
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... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the boss's moods. M...
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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Absolutely, ... If we didn't have the injuries, he'd probably be here today. But you got to be Tom Brady at the line of scrimmage and be able to adjust.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
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A growth in China's power projection understandably leads other nations to question China's intentions, and to adjust their behavior in some fashion.
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Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
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I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.
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We cannot control the winds, but we can always adjust our sails.
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Life is about change, whether good or bad, and being able to adjust accordingly.
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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
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We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
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If you can't control the wind, adjust your sail.
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Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can adjust the sails.
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