Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
John Keats
Poet
"To silence gossip, don't repeat it."
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"Those who gossip with you will gossip about you."
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"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."
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"In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense."
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"With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything."
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"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
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""Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters."
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"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."
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"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
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"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds."
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"We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?"
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"In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
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"Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude."
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"Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless."
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"Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still."
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"The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat."
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"Gossip is the Devil's radio."
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"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue."
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"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip."
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"The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely."
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"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
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