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For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.
~ Martha Beck
Biology
Both
Clothing
Cost
Culture
Else
Energy
Everything
Everything Else
Food
Had
High
History
Human
Human Life
Life
Majority
Much
Pretty
Scarcity
Shaped
Shelter
Time
Tools
Vast
Vast Majority
Very
World
World History
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Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.
~ Martha Beck
Area
Effortlessly
Encouragement
Friends
High
Length
Loudly
Many
Need
Sings
Them
Way
Which
Worry
Worrying
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Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
~ Martha Beck
Blind
Bogged
Button
Conclusions
Cozy
Deaf
Down
Flow
Form
Gets
Getting
Ideas
Information
Learning
Longer
Making
New
New Ideas
New Information
Old
Old Ones
Once
Our
Perceptions
Pushed
Stops
Stories
Us
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.
~ Martha Beck
Better
Convinced
Dating
Every
Everyday
Experience
Good-Looking
Homely
Individuals
Jury
Research
Situation
Social
Than
Treated
Trial
Virtually
Will
You
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I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.
~ Martha Beck
After
Again
Been
Cannot
Count
Defeated
Hard
Hey
How
Humiliated
Immediately
Injured
Me
Never
Physically
Saying
Seems
Stop
Them
Times
Words
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I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
~ Martha Beck
About
Aging
Always
Believed
Case
Death
Everybody
Exception
Feel
Felt
He
I Feel
Made
Said
Way
William
Would
Would-Be
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
~ Martha Beck
Africa
Began
Fell
Fix
Helping
Helping People
Love
People
Things
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I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.
~ Martha Beck
Amazing
Athlete
Baseball
Baseball Player
Because
Client
Clubs
Dance
Danced
Drink
Eight
Energy
Go
Had
He
Hours
Just
Much
Nine
Once
Physical
Player
Professional
Professional Baseball
Professional Baseball Player
Seven
Take
Time
Who
Would
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I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
~ Martha Beck
Beginning
Calm
Practice
Situations
Staying
Tense
Time
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I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you love, from watching TV to hanging out with favorite people.
~ Martha Beck
Exercise
Favorite
Favorite People
Hanging
Instead
List
Love
Make
Out
People
Replace
Sin
Suggest
Things
TV
Virtuous
Watching
Watching Tv
Work
You
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I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
~ Martha Beck
Africa
Animal
Going
Learning
Me
Really
Right
Thought
Track
Up
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
~ Martha Beck
Dead
Earth
Ecosystems
Fully
Help
Like
Live
Repair
Until
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I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
~ Martha Beck
Am
Circumstance
Different
Everything
Hair
I Am
Lives
Look
Our
Our Lives
Over
Power
Powerless
Saying
True
Were
Which
Would
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I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
~ Martha Beck
About
Activities
Anything
Before
Diving
Hesitate
Imagine
Instructions
More
Never
People
Some
Some People
Tasks
Understood
Unfamiliar
Wanting
Why
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If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.
~ Martha Beck
Be Happy
Because
Everybody
Fight
Go
Go Home
Happy
He
His
Home
In-Laws
Job
Man
Men
Needs
Parents
Quit
Supposed
Tell
Well
Wife
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If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.
~ Martha Beck
Anticipate
Create
Embrace
Expectations
Good
Good Reason
Having
Often
Positive
Reason
Stuck
Very
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
~ Martha Beck
About
Caring
Focused
Happy
Live
Memories
Objects
Otherwise
Pristine
Rather
Start
Stay
Stay Focused
Stop
Stuff
Surrounded
Tangible
Than
Things
Touch
Traces
You
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If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.
~ Martha Beck
Accept
Ambivalent
Decide
Feeling
Happening
Might
Pay
You
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If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.
~ Martha Beck
Aerobic
Also
Calories
Day
Eat
Fleeting
Go
Hours
Instantly
Loss
Sudden
Totally
Violent
Weight
Weight Loss
Will
You
Your
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
~ Martha Beck
Appears
Care
Fact
In Fact
Love
Often
Unconditional
Unconditional Love
Vanishes
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