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"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed." »Peter McWilliams
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"Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation." »John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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"It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation." »Robert Conklin
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"If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about." »Joyce Duco
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"It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation." »Frederick W. Robertson
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"When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is a good side to every situation." »David Schwartz
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"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." »Edward R. Murrow
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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it." »S. I. Hayakawa
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"The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing." »L. Ron Hubbard
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"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity." »Helen Schucman
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"I never been in no situation where havin' money make it any worse." »Clinton Jones
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation." »Jean Kerr
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"Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised." »Unknown
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"My financial situation disables me...can I file for disability?" »Katherine Markovich
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"If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing." »Harry S Truman
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"Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game." »Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
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"The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression." »John Romano
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"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for." »Florence Scovel Shinn
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"There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." »W. C. Fields
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"The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger." »Lucan
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"We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves." »Francis J. Braceland
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"It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)" »Albert Einstein
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"The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently." »Ira Erwin
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"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe." »Abigail Adams
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"It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic." »Shimon Peres
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"Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation." »Thucyclides
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"Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead." »Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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"If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it." »Diana Nyad
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"In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm." »Isaac Rosenfeld
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