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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Natalie Massenet
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Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.


Stefon Diggs
Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.
Christie Brinkley
You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.
Marie Osmond
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.


Hans Selye
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.


Patricia Neal
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
Garth Nix
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A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.
Mary Pope Osborne
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My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'
Alan Garner
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
Marla Maples
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I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.
Lauren Myracle
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See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle Obama
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.
Peter Abrahams
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
Vesta Williams
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If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers
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Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.
Willie Geist
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
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There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
Charles Spurgeon