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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt and change before any major trends or changes. -- Jack Ma
Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right. -- Maxwell Maltz
Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins. -- W. Edwards Deming
The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner. -- Kofi Annan
Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you. -- Jim Rohn
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] -- Horace
Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek. -- Chris Murray
We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states. -- lecrae
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue. -- Theognis of Megara
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business. -- Shelley Morrison
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change -- Frank Herbert
All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams. -- Archibald Marwizi
Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results. -- Archibald Marwizi
Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe. -- Chris Prentiss
Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish. -- Loretta Chase
Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?""There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish. -- Loretta Chase
I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them. -- Kim Kardashian
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family. -- LaToya Jackson
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. -- Oscar Wilde
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. -- Anais Nin
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. -- Jared Diamond
I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. -- Joan Rivers
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. -- Margaret Mitchell
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! -- Marquis de Sade
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal. -- Isla Fisher
I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend. -- Dianna Agron
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least! -- Chuck Norris
Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own. -- Marco Rubio
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive. -- Dalai Lama
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. -- Leland Stanford
School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food. -- Richard J. Codey
Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods. -- Jay Inslee
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. -- Antonin Scalia
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. -- Louis D. Brandeis
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born. -- Charles Krauthammer
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. -- Robert Dale Owen
I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish. -- Kelly Clarkson
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. -- Adoniram Judson
The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith. -- Ronnie Musgrove
If I have kids, I'll adopt. -- Sarah Silverman
I always knew I would adopt. Always. -- Charlize Theron
Gay individuals should be able to adopt. -- Tim Kaine
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality. -- Alexandra Robbins
You must ignore the bad and adopt the good. -- Gichin Funakoshi
School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly. -- Reed Hastings
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old. -- Patti Stanger
To hit someone means to adopt his point of view. -- Paul Valery
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. -- Robert Rodriguez
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. -- Alfred Marshall
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. -- Lev S. Vygotsky
It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt. -- Sherry Argov
You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. -- Quentin Crisp
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. -- Joseph Joubert
There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. -- Dalai Lama
Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom? -- Steig Larsson
I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt. -- Sophia Bush
Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing. -- David Limbaugh
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship. -- Jesse Jackson
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents. -- Joe Moore
I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt. -- Courteney Cox
I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt. -- Anna Kournikova
I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest. -- Mary J. Blige
I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children. -- Perrey Reeves
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. -- Quintilian
You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him? -- Ann Dunham
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Mom! This is Haruhi! We'll adopt her someday so don't forget! ~Hikaru and Kaoru -- Bisco Hatori
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool. -- Clay Shirky
To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts. -- Dorothy Norman
I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account... -- Henry David Thoreau
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. -- Emma Lazarus
Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling. -- Seth Klarman
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. -- Abraham Lincoln
Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed. -- Simon Bolivar
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. -- Anais Nin
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own. -- Ivan Turgenev
If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt. -- Booboo Stewart
To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel. -- David Penhaligon
The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet. -- Louie Psihoyos
Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority. -- Mason Cooley
It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names. -- Arthur Chu
Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself. -- Gautama Buddha
never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you -- Walter Wink
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy. -- Tim Kaine
You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices. -- Al Gore
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress. -- Tom Udall
You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate. -- Sharon Salzberg
Love your neighbor as yourself. That's what we need to adopt to be a better country. -- Brandon Marshall
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. -- Rupert Everett
For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures? -- Ambrose
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. -- Steve Buscemi
We're not going to allow gay people to adopt children, that's against nature, it's against nature's God. -- William Anthony Donohue
Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. -- Dennis Prager
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. -- Niklaus Wirth
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level. -- Mark Twain
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. -- George Bernard Shaw
Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy. -- Najib Razak
Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first. -- John Rechy
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I can't wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own. -- Eve Jihan Jeffers
I can't wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own. -- Eve Jihan Jeffers
The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
While it costs us a lot to adopt children, it cost God the blood of His own Son. -- Ricky Morton
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. -- Henri Bergson
I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. -- Billy Carter
We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle. -- Klaus Topfer
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that. -- Oscar Wilde
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. -- Alister E. McGrath

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