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Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
Gretchen Rubin / Author
Constructive
Skillful
Combative
Corrective
Disagreements
Explore
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In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.
Shelby Steele / Author
Action
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Fairness
Moral
Symmetry
Theory
Certainly
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Requires
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Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
Edward Bach / Physician
Lessons
Mean
Suffering
Corrective
Failed
Eradicated
Grasp
Learnt
Lesson
Point
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Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
Kristi Yamaguchi / Figure Skater
Casts
Legs
Shoes
Week
Corrective
Straighten
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra / Essayist
Elites
Bluff
Corrective
Global
Quickly
Smug
Voices
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
Ed Royce / United States Representative
Energy
Matter
Right Thing
Want
Companies
Corrective
Do The Right Thing
Leveling
Playing Field
Several
The Right Thing
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The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
Hugh Ross / Creationist
Environmental
Action
Appropriate
Environmental Issues
Harm
Problem
Understanding
Wind
Corrective
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I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'
Apollo Robbins /
Braces
Fine
Gross
Legs
Motor
Natural
Corrective
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Physical
Wore
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Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Freedom
Cherish
Constitution
Decency
Democracy
Fairness
Realistic
Speak
Today
Amendment
Blacks
Corrective
Document
Sense
Several
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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson / 7Th U.s. President
Agents
Calmness
Deliberation
Hands
People
Prove
Strong
Suffrage
Usurpation
Power Great Enough
Constitutional
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
Harold Bloom / Literary Critic
Doe
Literature
Phenomenon
Thinking
University
Corrective
Better World Will
Current
Literary
Finally
Passes
Provide
Studies
Worse
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In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.
Martin Clunes / Actor
Corrective
Instrument
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The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.
Zoe Lofgren / U.s. Representative
War
Acknowledge
Administration
Critical
Errors
Iraq
Judgment
Mistake
Taken
Mistakes
Corrective
Happening
Prevent
Refuses
Thus
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Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.
Eric Metaxas / Author
Biographies
Blind
Spots
Corrective
Enable
Glass
Slip
Tendency
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
Edmund White / Novelist
Distance
Faults
Pages
Thousand
Autobiographical
Christopher
Corrective
Journals
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Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.
Mike Yaconelli / Writer
Relationship
Bible
Book
Looking Back
Magic
Years
God I Am Me
God Relationship Me
Living
Back
Confront
Corrective
Read
Over
Word
Seek
Presence
Reads
Realize
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There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.
Joe Harris / Basketball Player
Little Things
Corrective
Exercises
Extra
Long Run
Tendency
Tub
Workouts
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I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
Lee Smith /
Eye
Influence
Possibility
Powerful
Good Culture World
Corrective
Happening
Note
Parts
World Changes
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I used to be really fat, but now I'm not. I used to have hair, but now I don't. I used to be able to see without corrective lenses, but now I can't. One of these this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm an editor. One of these things is true despite the fact that I'm an editor. One of them has nothing to do with me being an editor.
John Joseph Adams /
Despite
Lenses
Fat
Corrective
Editor
Exacerbated
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