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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

~Abbie Cornish

Topics: Better Child Dysfunction Each Family Know Love Much Other Parents Realise Split Stay Than Them Think Time Within You Your I Think

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Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Address Affirmative Dysfunction Every Example For Example Life Mine More Noir Novel Pathology Perhaps Present Presents Slice Social Some Sort Upbeat While

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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Another Any Anywhere Attachment Been Celebrate Century City Civic Culture Dying Dysfunction Equal Fierce Labels Language Love More Politics Reflex Resent Stereotyping Than World

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There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

~Bob Corker

Topics: Dysfunction Far Goes Just Senate Times Too Where

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Unfortunately, Republicans repeatedly waste taxpayer time and money, and even shut down the government, in efforts to repeal ACA. We simply cannot afford this kind of dysfunction.

~Brad Schneider

Topics: Afford Cannot Down Dysfunction Efforts Even Government Kind Money Repeal Repeatedly Republicans Shut Simply Taxpayer Time Time And Money Unfortunately Waste

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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

~Dana Spiotta

Topics: Convey Disorder Dysfunction Dysfunctional Itself Linear Making Memory Needs Novel Particularly Repetitive Subjective Without Writer

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The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Able Better Chronic Competitors Dysfunction Elect Leadership Manage Most Nation Political Political System Problems Should System Than Weakness Which

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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

~Eckhart Tolle

Topics: Absolute Collective Dysfunction Dysfunctional Ego Element Even Frequently Insanity More Personal Point Strong

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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

~Eckhart Tolle

Topics: Always Dysfunction End Evils Human Human Mind Mind Remain Same Structures Unchanged Up Will World

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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Between Childhood Dysfunction Emotional Hand Marked Other Privilege Tension

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