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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."

"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."

"I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated."
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"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

"A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration."

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."

"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."

"Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense."

"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
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