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"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."
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"Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them - than when you are alone."
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"They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep."
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Personal Development
"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."
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"Presenting "Mix, Mingle & Glow in a social context is a lovely way to describe how you can make a great first impression by taking the initiative to help other people shine. Think of the times when you have attended an event where there were a lot of people."
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Personal Development
"Discovery is meant to fill in the need of the society."
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Personal Development
"That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged."
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"The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview."
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"Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family."
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"The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"
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"Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
Faith
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
God
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self
"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about."
Knowledge
"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."
History
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Talent
"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
Habit
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Thought
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