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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."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"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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"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."

"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
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