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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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"The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people."
People
"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."
Change
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
American
"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
Europe
"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
Intelligence
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
People
"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."
Idea
"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
Intelligence
"My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited."
People
"I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism."
Time
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