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past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past illusion ability
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
past people skinny
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. David Arquette
past decision architect
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Dan Brown
past native-language environmental
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates. Daniel Yergin
past yesterday age
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. Ambrose Bierce
past feet stuck
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. Anthony Kiedis
past essence opposites
Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
past festivals terrible
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova
self reactions self-efficacy
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others Albert Bandura
self different patterns
In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects
self water trying
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. Albert Camus
self ugly obsessed
You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed. Annie Lennox
self doe world
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. Annie Dillard
self giving pages
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public. Clay Shirky
self rose vision
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision. Angelus Silesius
self looks portraits
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear. Cindy Sherman
self honest helping
God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves. Chuck Smith
skills littles sticks
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies