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“Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” —HENRY WARD BEECHER”
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
“Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.” —EMILY DICKINSON”
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
“Making excuses for chronic promise-breakers is invariably self-defeating.”
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
“One hundred repetitions make one truth. The defenders of the truth can be overwhelmed by repeated lies.” No lie was too outlandish, as long as it could at least plausibly confuse the real news,”
― Blowout
― Blowout
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Consciously or unconsciously, nearly everyone keeps score of favors and gestures, and everyone is sensitive to being shortchanged.”
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
― Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
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