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Ambivalent Quotes

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
tags: ambivalence, ambivalent, hopeless, hopelessness, implausible, impossible, inner-conflict, intelligence, opposing-views
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: a-bit-on-the-side, a-play-on-words, abstruse, adultery, affair, ambiguity, ambiguous, ambivalent, amour, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arguable, be-unfaithful, came, carrying-on, catch, catch-read-handed, caught, caught-red-handed, cheat, cheater, cheaters, come, coming, commit-adultery, cuckoldry, debatable, disloyalty, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, extramarital, extramarital-sex, falseness, fling, fool-around, fooling-around, funny, hanky-panky, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, imprecise, infidelity, joke, jokes, language, liaison, obscure, open-to-argument, open-to-debate, orgasm, orgasms, play-around, play-on-words, playing-around, pun, puns, red-handed, satire, secret, semen, sex, sexual-intercourse, sperm, spermatozoa, spermatozoon, sperms, stray, two-time, two-timing, uncertain, unclear, unfaithful, unfaithfulness, vague, walk-on, walked-on
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“The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
tags: ambiguity, ambivalence, ambivalent, confusion, human-nature, humanity, self-doubt
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Gwendolyn Kiste
“It was the most beautiful and horrible thing I’d ever seen, watching her become all that she was meant to be.”
― Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens
tags: ambivalent, women-s-strength
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“A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
tags: ambivalence, ambivalent, attitude, high-performance, high-productivity, take-for-granted, unappreciated, work, working
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Brandon Sanderson
“If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
tags: afraid, ambivalent, evil, helping, lose, people, stop, whatever
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A.P. Sweet
“nevermore will i lie in the wake of your ambivalence”
― A.P. Sweet, The Abattoir of Silence
tags: ambivalence, ambivalent
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“The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship patterns in marriage. Holmes (1993) has described a pattern of 'phobic-counterphobic' marriage in which an ambivalently attached person will be attracted to an avoidant 'counter-phobic' spouse in a system of mutual defence against separation anxiety.”
― Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
tags: ambivalent, attachment-theory, avoidant, marriage, phobic-counterphobic, psychology, relatonships, separation-anxiety
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