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"Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."
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"The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves."
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Personal Development
"Dignity is pride's barometer."
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Personal Development
"I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette."
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Personal Development
"Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise."
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Personal Development
"Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request."
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Personal Development
"The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort."
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Personal Development
"If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels."
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Personal Development
"He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become."
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"If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears."
Madness
"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same."
Individuality
"I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette."
Status
"Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude."
Privacy
"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."
Maturity
"Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all."
Maturity
"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"
Aspiration
"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."
Contradiction
"And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?' he said softly.'Assuredly,' she said, 'provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything."
Silence
"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."
Learning
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