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You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn’t prove there’s a loving God; but if there is, isn’t it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?

The God Cookie

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

(In actuality there are no such things as "male" or "female" hormones. Hormones have no sex of their own, and all types of sex hormones are present in all human beings in varying amounts.)

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

[Masters and Johnson found] the so-called vaginal orgasm was actually not vaginal. When it happened at all, it was the result of friction between clitoral hood and clitoris that some women experienced when the thrusts of the penis tugged at connected...

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

My favorite Viagra ad, a Spanish-language print ad I saw some years ago, simply shows an image of the distinctive blue pill with the text “Un divorcio menos. Gracias, Pfizer.” (“One less divorce. Thanks, Pfizer.”)

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which e...

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda that might or might not have anything at all to do with reality. But then as now, being a canny and independent-minded...

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t get a sense of what it...

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Ellsworth Huntington

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

Caitlin Stasey

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

John Lydon

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.

Tinie Tempah

Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. Pinballing through our day like a confused character in a B-horror movie, we end up running up the stairs instead of out t...

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

Mort Sahl

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Orrin Woodward

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

Danielle Steel

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

Hasan M. Elahi

It’s important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive—at leas...

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

Richard Engel