I have heard about the ...

I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages.
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.
 Sharon Olds

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
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You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
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The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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The older I get, the more I feel.
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