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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."

"I like flaws. I think they make things interesting."

"I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting."

"If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe."

"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."

"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."

"Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse.Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods."
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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."

"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."

"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."

"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."

"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."

"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."

"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."

"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."

"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."

"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
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