"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction."

Social, Flattery, Contempt, Superiority

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"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction."

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"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Social, Time, Judgment, Fun

"I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Social, Journalism, People, Choice, Interest

"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Social, Job, Attention, Government, Help

"Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favourably by using the female pronoun-how did I get to be Maya Angelou?"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Social, Identity, Race, Struggle, Resilience

"Now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS)"

David Levithan, American Author

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"It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say."

David Levithan, American Author

Social, Deception, Truth, World, Speech

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Social, Children, Goodness, Happiness, Education

"When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Social, Conflict, Relationship, Tension, Behavior

"The company makes the feast."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

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"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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