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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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Personal Development
"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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Personal Development
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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Personal Development
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career."
Career
"For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977."
Work
"Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects."
Sex
"But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about."
People
"What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it."
Power
"Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting."
Experience
"Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before."
Life
"I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself."
People
"When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything."
Change
"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
Power
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