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"Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."

"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."

"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."

"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."

"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."

"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."

"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."

"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
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"Success-minded people tend to be successful, confident, and friendly because they act successful, confident and friendly. People feel comfortable around positive people because positive people feel comfortable with themselves."

"Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary."

"I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action."

"The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you."

"How we talk effects our lives in two very important ways. It shows how we think of others and how we think of ourselves. The fascinating thing is they always run together."

"Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success."

"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."

"We watch death and destruction on TV, in movies, over the news and online so much that it is just a part of our lives. It was never meant to be that way. In the end, we have paid a heavy price for our curiosity."
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