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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development

"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

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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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 do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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Personal Development

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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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

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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Personal Development

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running."
Mistake

"No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi."
People

"We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother."
Act

"I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring."
Work

"The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value."
Change

"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
Love

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
Sympathy

"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"
Advice

"Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s."
Silly

"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."
Life
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