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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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"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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"My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think."
Life
"White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people."
Men
"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
People
"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
Culture
"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."
Life
"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."
Food
"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."
Artist
"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."
Day
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
Force
"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
Baby
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