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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 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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family
"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
Man
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life
"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
Education
"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."
Heart
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
"Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English."
Family
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
Home
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
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