We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.
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