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“It is a very strange world! You don’t know people’s real lives; all that you know are their masks. You see them in the churches, you see them in the clubs, in the hotels, in the dancing halls, and it seems everybody is rejoicing, everybody is living a heavenly life, except you—of course, because you know how miserable you are within. And the same is the case with everybody else! They are all wearing masks, deceiving everybody, but how can you deceive yourself? You know that the mask is not your original face. But”
― Osho, Living on Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?

“There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Remember, there is no other way.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“Sigmund Freud said that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People