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  • She had taken up a thing they called Coue, and grown stouter.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Coue who says it is better to call things better because they are worse.

    Chesterton's Intro to Fulton Sheen's Book 2007

  • My late grandfather quoted this phase from Emile Coue, the great psychotherapist.

    Blog De Ganz | Archive | June 2004

  • Partly from fear of encouraging Coue, and partly from fear of encouraging her, Soames avoided a reply; but he had a curious sense of power, as if he did not care what people said of him.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Failing in her suggestion, and finding him every day less sociable, Annette had given him a book on Coue.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • I subscribe to Coue, Maltz and the Frenchman who said si tu veux tu peux.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • They all make the same point but Coue put it quite well: in any contest between the imagination and the will, the imagination always wins.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • Till Cramprings quier, tip Coue his hire, [29] and quier-kens doe them catch; [30]

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • Mr. President and Gentlemen, -- I have good news for you by secret service from across the border, and that is that the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, who have such deep interest in Turkey, are trying to persuade Coue to visit Constantinople and give them treatment so that day by day, in every way, they will do better and better.

    The British Empire and Islam 1923

  • For maximum efficiency the affirmation needs to be repeated calmly, without will, yet with absolute confidence and expectation of success, according to Coue.

    Jayvee Fernandez on Technology and New Media in the Philippines Carole Fogarty 2010

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