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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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Personal Development
"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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Personal Development
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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Personal Development
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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Personal Development
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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Personal Development
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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Personal Development
"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."
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Personal Development
"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
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Personal Development
"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?"
Behavior
"This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten."
Loneliness
"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
Labor
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
Strength
"In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included."
Theology
"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
Journalism
"It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life... Maybe being perfectly happy is not really the point. Maybe that is only some modern American dream of the point, while the truer measure of humanity is the distance we must travel in our lives, time and again, "twixt two extremes of passion--joy and grief," as Shakespeare put it. However much I've lost, what remains to me is that I can still speak to name the things I love. And I can look for safety in giving myself away to the world's least losable things."
Humanity
"I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air."
Healing
"Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger."
Mortality
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
Fact
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