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"Consider how others may feel about you before, during, and after talking. Are you projecting an attitude that results in others feeling accepted and welcome? Are you encouraging people to speak and engage with you through your approachability?"

"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."

"Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve."

"Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior usually gravitates towards the lowest common denominator. Choose your group wisely."

"There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim."
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"If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details."

"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."

"What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the music of our being - which is transformed by some into real music. Which, over the decades, if it is string and true and pure enough to drown out the noise of time, is transformed into the whisper of history."

"It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition."

"Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical."

"Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?"

"What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together."

"How weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop."
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