Rationalization is foreplay with one’s conscience.
– Doug Cooper
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- Cause and effect are rarely directly related. Justice has a mind of her own. – Doug Cooper
- What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things. – Doug Cooper
- You earn brotherhood-”the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it-”moment by moment through how you treat others. – Doug Cooper
- Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road. – Doug Cooper
- I’m learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit. – Doug Cooper
- Questions from earlier circle like buzzards. Am I running away or moving forward? – Doug Cooper
- The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here. – Doug Cooper
- To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no-”an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice. – Doug Cooper
- I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger. – Doug Cooper
- I never get used to the faces–wide-eyed and full of possibility–staring bad at me. – Doug Cooper
- Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before. – Doug Cooper
- Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills. – Doug Cooper
- I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation. – Doug Cooper
- When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it. – Doug Cooper
- Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I’m paying attention to what I have rather than what’s missing. – Doug Cooper
- There’s nothing like an ?????? to force a person to think–and more often than not, to think too much. – Doug Cooper
- There’s nothing like an ?????? to make a person think–and more often than not, to think too much. – Doug Cooper
- Word has traveled quickly that just because you’re on island doesn’t mean you have to be stranded—as long as you have cash. – Doug Cooper
- All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last. – Doug Cooper
- I have nowhere to go and no place I’m supposed to be. Am I lost or completely free? – Doug Cooper
- The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself. – John duover
- Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality. – Nicos Hadjicostis
- To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. – Christopher Hitchens
- Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles-”and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others. – Billy Graham
- Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience. – Harper Lee
- The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. – Leo Tolstoy
- The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
- Just as foreplay is the key to good sex, preparation is essential to achieving victory in battle. Right, lieutenant? – Natalia Marx
- Sex without foreplay is like song’s reff without intro. – Toba Beta
- Like sexual intercourse, death needs foreplay. – Martin Page
- Looking at what ‘foreplay’ is, ‘sexual intercourse’ is a game. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- If simply through talking we are this good at sexless foreplay, imagine, if you will, what ecstasy awaits in our first kiss… – Virginia Alison
- Sex is a three act play: foreplay, play and afterplay. – Chloe Thurlow
- Most women prefer lovemaking with romance, appreciation, respect, and caring with plenty of foreplay, satisfaction, and afterglow. – JF Kelly
- Your hatred is my foreplay.- – Julian King – Z Stefani
- Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. – Doug Larson
- The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren’t the ones people see on the outside. They’re the ones that make us bleed internally. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world! – Vishwas Mudagal
- We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I’d rather be a good one. Wouldn’t you? – Randy Alcorn