In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
The day you don't mess with somebody, that would be exclusive rather than inclusive. I strive to be inclusive.
Beijing is trying to split the baby between simultaneously liberalizing the economy and maintaining economic stability, but those two factors are increasingly mutually exclusive.
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
To me, being a black woman and being beautiful are not mutually exclusive.
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
I’ve always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.
Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.
Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard
I suppose I came to a realisation that being a serious actress and being on the cover of 'FHM' don't need to be mutually exclusive.
I've always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.
The United States is deeply concerned by Turkey's announced intentions to begin offshore drilling operations in an area claimed by the Republic of Cyprus as its Exclusive Economic Zone.
Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.
Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.
Golf is elitist, it's stuffy, it's exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I'm still not welcomed in.
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
If composing music is like going to the gym in the morning, acting is like an additional session of yoga. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.
Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.
[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
You know he's invested when he doesn't treat his 'friend time' and 'girlfriend time' as mutually exclusive.
A good song always has to do with the person representing it - how they're feeling in that moment - but I think my songs don't need to be exclusive in terms of gender or race or that kind of thing.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
I recognised that femininity and strength are not mutually exclusive, and I think that femininity has often been equated with weakness, but we know it's not.
Contrary to popular opinion, classical music does not have to be enjoyed amid exclusive circles, there need not be any snobbishness attached to it. It's there for everyone. I play for the people.
I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.
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