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"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."
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"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."
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Personal Development
"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
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Personal Development
"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."
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"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."
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"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."
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"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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"Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. [' Homeless down in the corner']"
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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
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"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
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Personal Development
"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
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"The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them."
Emotional
"The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response."
Fight
"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
Emotional
"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."
Age
"If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily."
Attention
"When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills."
Business
"Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father."
Motivational
"When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions."
Life
"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
Ability
"I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example."
Intelligence
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