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"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"
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"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."
"I didn't have the vaguest idea of what to do " I couldn't keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn't work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don't have anything to say."
"Never ask about the details of someone's personal life, only the quality. Because if they want you to know, they'll let you know. If they don't want you to know, there is no need to know."
"What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!"
"Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision."
"I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone."
"It is wise to use titles for people in positions of power, higher education, seniority, or maturity, unless otherwise instructed. This may sound old-fashioned, but practicing respectful traditions will earn you points and inevitably make you seem more cultured and sophisticated. This is especially true with older generations."
"Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
"Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
"Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment."
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