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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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