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Emily Yoffe Inspirational Quotes (41)

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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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Children need adult men in their lives.
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Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful.
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.
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My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.
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It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
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As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.
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Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.
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When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
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