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Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it. -- Bartok
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. -- Hans Selye
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise. -- Linford Christie
Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent. -- Michael Gove
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment. -- Al Gore
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential. -- Matthieu Ricard
Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike. -- Helen Clark
Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods. -- Nell Newman
Sweet bleedin' Christ," Bones interrupted. "Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we're already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we'll get you more cats. -- Jeaniene Frost
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph. -- William Klein
I'm not adopting a baby. -- Cynthia Nixon
I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. -- Diana Ross
I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.' -- Tyra Banks
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours. -- Adele
We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet. -- Joel Fuhrman
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution. -- Paul Bloom
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction. -- Rafael Correa
I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting. -- Lisa Ling
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world. -- Paulo Freire
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. -- S. Jay Olshansky
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. -- Henry Charles Carey
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands. -- Gavin DeGraw
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity. -- Diane Ackerman
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal. -- Norman Borlaug
Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. -- Dick Morris
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am. -- Robyn
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. -- Laura Mennell
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything. -- Dan Stevens
Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world. -- Marketa Irglova
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information. -- Evgeny Morozov
I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. -- Mickey Rooney
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. -- Dale Archer
I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put your eyebrow back where it was and, you know, turn to the left.' You know, I'm sort of very consciously adopting this character. But with music, I don't know. I found it was a question of just closing my eyes and just sort of letting things come out. -- Hugh Laurie
No, I'm not adopting any children. -- Jennifer Aniston
They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China. -- Lester R. Brown
I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids. -- Mia Farrow
By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit. -- Bruce Lee
The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs. -- Narendra Modi
Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever. -- Steven Pressfield
Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person. -- Mary Tyler Moore
I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted. -- Anthony Jeselnik
If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them? -- Margaret Cho
I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs. -- Ben Goldacre
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. -- William Manchester
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. -- Barry Commoner
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. -- Epictetus
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism. -- Geoff Mulgan
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans. -- Frederick Douglass
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea. -- Bruce Bartlett
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. -- Mark Twain
I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired. -- George Mason
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways. -- Robert Higgs
My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences. -- Elizabeth Holmes
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. -- George Bernard Shaw
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself. -- Libba Bray
Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing. -- Longchenpa
With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions. -- Nick Clegg
Small businesses were slower than large businesses in adopting broadband. One of the reasons was they were concerned with putting their customer lists online or in the cloud. -- Julius Genachowski
We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind. -- Hugh Jackman
The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence. -- George Eliot
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. -- Elliott Abrams
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound. -- Ed Stetzer
The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting a historical materialist approach to understanding phallocratic domination. -- Nancy Hartsock
I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated. -- Hillary Clinton
There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling. -- Peter Lynch
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession. -- Oscar Wilde
Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does. -- C.S. Friedman
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society â?? your home â?? tells you is important. -- Brad Warner
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. -- Henry Charles Carey
I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves. -- Sarah Silverman
...Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school,...(will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the profession. -- Harris L Coulter
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations. -- Gretchen Rubin
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others. -- Benjamin Carson
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there. -- Marco Rubio

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