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"If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment " how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?"
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"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."
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"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
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"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."
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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
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"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"
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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
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"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
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"A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted."
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"Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss."
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"If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving."
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."
Death
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Change
"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials."
Life
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
Knowledge
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Want
"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more."
Communication
"The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite."
Life
"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish."
Communication
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Man
"Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I."
Ethics
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