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"“He often *scintillated* between painfully formal and tentatively informal.”
…does she mean *vacillated?* …or maybe *oscillated?* This book is read by the author and she pronounces the word SKINtilated… maybe she knows something I don’t…?" — 17 hours, 37 min ago
"“He often *scintillated* between painfully formal and tentatively informal.”
…does she mean *vacillated?* …or maybe *oscillated?* This book is read by the author and she pronounces the word SKINtilated… maybe she knows something I don’t…?" — 17 hours, 37 min ago
If you meet some standard of objective attractiveness, people think you’re better than you actually are—smarter, more interesting, worthier of existing. Combined with the right personality, this can be powerful.
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Happy Birthday to You!
― Happy Birthday to You!
“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
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