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"There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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Personal Development

"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."
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Personal Development

"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."
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Personal Development

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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Personal Development

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."
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Personal Development

"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."
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Personal Development

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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Personal Development

"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."
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Personal Development

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."
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Personal Development

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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"The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world."
Society

"In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fAated these people and fed their vanity."
Society

"Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so."
Literature

"No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many."
Inspirational

"There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni."
Psychology

"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."
Culture

"It was a good thing to be an African. There were terrible things that happened in Africa, things that brought shame and despair when one thought about them, but that was not all there was in Africa. However great the suffering of the people of Africa, however harrowing the cruelty and chaos brought about by soldiers-small boys with guns, really-there was still so much in Africa from which one could take real pride. There was the kindness, for example, and the ability to smile, and the art and the music."
Culture

"And the memory made her humble, for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful."
Reflection

"We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women."
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"Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different."
Art
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