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The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
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Deborah Tannen

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Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
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Deborah Tannen

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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.
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Deborah Tannen

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Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
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Deborah Tannen

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There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.
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Deborah Tannen

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When Clinton first appeared on the national stage back in 1992, the young wife of the Arkansas governor running for president, she kept her natural-brown hair off her face with a headband.
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Deborah Tannen

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When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'
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Deborah Tannen

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While the requirements of a good leader and a good man are similar, the requirements of a good leader and a good woman are mutually exclusive. A good leader must be tough, but a good woman must not be. A good woman must be self-deprecating, but a good leader must not be.
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A sister is the one person you can call in the middle of the night when you can't sleep or the one who doesn't want to hear about your problems unless you're ready to do something about them. She's the one who is there when you need her or the one whose absence when you need her hurts the most.
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Deborah Tannen

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Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.
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The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.
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Deborah Tannen

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If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
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Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.
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Deborah Tannen

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It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.
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One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'
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Deborah Tannen

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As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.
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New Yorkers seem to think the best thing two people can do is talk.
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Most non-New Yorkers, finding themselves within hearing range of strangers' conversation, think it's nice to pretend they didn't hear. But many New Yorkers think it's nice to toss in a relevant comment.
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Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
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I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.
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Deborah Tannen

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Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.
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I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
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Deborah Tannen

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I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.
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Deborah Tannen

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The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
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Deborah Tannen

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The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
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Deborah Tannen

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If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.
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Deborah Tannen

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When you have no concerns in your mind you are able to win a lot of times, that's how I felt when we were able to win at Dortmund.
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Ilkay Gundogan

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“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

Quote by - Socrates

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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

Quote by - George Bernard Shaw

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"There is always something rather absurd about the past"

Quote by - Max Beerbohm

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Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
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Jordan Peterson

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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.
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Jordan Peterson

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I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
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Jordan Peterson

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Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
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Jordan Peterson

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If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
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Jordan Peterson

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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.
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Jordan Peterson

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Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
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Jordan Peterson

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The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
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Jordan Peterson

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It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
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Jordan Peterson

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There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
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Jordan Peterson

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The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
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Jordan Peterson

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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
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Jordan Peterson

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Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.
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Jordan Peterson

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When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
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Jordan Peterson

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Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.
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Jordan Peterson

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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
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Jordan Peterson

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Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.
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Jordan Peterson

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I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.
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Jordan Peterson

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