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"How many of us have lately taken the time out to look at the sky; marvel at the clouds; smell the flowers; or smelt the fresh scent of rain; bought a stranger a cup of tea or coffee; given our time to help another; or just taken time out to sit and watch people rush hither and tither; said "I love you"; smiled at a complete stranger; joined in with kids from the street to play a game?Sadly, I would have to say....not many.It's sad...."
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"Connect by listening well and speaking relevantly without being prejudiced or sarcastic. Learn to listen with your eyes as much as you listen with your ears. Generate interest in the person and subject, that way people will become more interested in you."
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"That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends."
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"When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating."
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"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."
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"IE1ve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?EoEoChristian,Eo corrected Lissa.EoRight.Eo....EoSo what brings you and Christopher here?Eo asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink.EoChristian,Eo said Christian.....Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. EoBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.Eo It went without saying what he meant by that. EoOh. And Kreskin too."
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"Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit."
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"You have every right in the world to choose the kind of people that you place in your inner circle. By all means stay clear from negative minded individuals who are constantly very bitter with their lives and the lives of others. They wouldn't be too happy to watch you live a blissful life."
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"Red Carpet Events:Sitting on the couch and watching people who actually chase their goals and dreams, criticizing what they're wearing. and wondering why we're depressed."
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"Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them - than when you are alone."
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"If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them."
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"Less small talk and more real talk."
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"That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged."
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"Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication. the first is the buzz, the latter is the hangover."
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"I stayed with him for three days, and he then asked: 'Do you know any craft by which to make your living?' I told him: 'I am a lawyer, a scientist, a scribe, a mathematician and a calligrapher.' 'There is no market for that kind of thing here,' he replied. 'No one in this city has any knowledge of science or of writing and their only concern is making money.' 'By God,' I said, 'I know nothing apart from what I have told you."
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"When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty."
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"No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another."
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"Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities."
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"A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars."
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"Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other than just shorter, weaker men with breasts. Try and convict me if I'm a bad person for thinking so. I enjoy treating a woman like a lady, opening doors for her, paying for shared meals, giving flowers"all that sort of thing."
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"If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you."
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"I don't see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole that would soon be inhabited by termites and worms."
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"She finished getting ready with plenty of time to eat breakfast but didn't feel up to braving the dining hall; she still didn't know where it was or how it worked....In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.) Like, where does the line start? What food can you take? Where are you supposed to stand, then where are you supposed to sit? Where do you go when you're done, why is everyone watching you?... Bah."
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"You don't know what a trial it is to be -like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me."
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"Sex is usually cleaner than a blood sacrifice."
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"Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in the 1990s as the baby boomers became the establishment. Their targeting of rape, battering, hate crimes, gay-bashing, and child abuse reframed law-and-order from a reactionary cause to a progressive one, and their efforts to make the home, workplace, schools, and streets safer for vulnerable groups (as in the feminist "Take Back the Night protests) made these environments safer for everyone."
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"He returned my smile with a half grin. "So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?"
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"The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally."
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"In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency. They were lords of the only world she cared for, and they were ready to admit her to their ranks and let her lord it with them. Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things they did not believe in, a contemptuous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived."
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"The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all."
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"People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic functions, or when they are not at work, as irresponsible seekers of entertainment. Subjected to this kind of life, individuals tend to feel lonely and insignificant. Their existence cases to have any point of meaning."
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"I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people."
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"Hitting "like" on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance."
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"Conversation often becomes mere verbal performance and oral horseplay rather than fair-minded communication. ['Juicy rumours ']"
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"A maid's yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master's dustbin or dumpsite."
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"No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department."
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"The process begins with the individual woman's acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization."
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