"I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad."
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"Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others."
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"Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person."
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"Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession."
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"For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering."
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"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are."
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"Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them."
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"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
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"Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same."
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"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."
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"How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets."
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"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own."
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"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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"But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression"
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"In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric."
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"Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you."
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
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"What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic."
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"It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail."
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"Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance."
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