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"People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist."

"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?"

"Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When anger ceases, grandeur of authority (pratap) arises. Such is the law of nature. Otherwise there would never be any protection for those who don't get angry. Anger provides protection during one's conduct in ignorance of the self."

"Criminal' pompousness will not do, 'civil' pompousness is acceptable."

"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."
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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."


"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."


"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."
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