The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
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Related To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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GEORGE MACDONALD Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. 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MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husban... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... 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to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat... RONALD WRIGHT
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I think that Mack and the boys know everything that ... JOHN STEINBECK For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be bet... JOHN STEINBECK Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. JOHN STEINBECK Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I d... JOHN STEINBECK I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen. JOHN STEINBECK To the stars, on the wings of a pig. JOHN STEINBECK The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and ou... JOHN STEINBECK The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, dow... JOHN STEINBECK ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides whit... JOHN STEINBECK He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give ... JOHN STEINBECK No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. JOHN STEINBECK In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ... JOHN STEINBECK Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man. JOHN STEINBECK You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let your... JOHN STEINBECK Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls... JOHN STEINBECK To be alive at all is to have scars. JOHN STEINBECK If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ... JOHN STEINBECK Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't l... JOHN STEINBECK I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an'... JOHN STEINBECK When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when... JOHN STEINBECK But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that... JOHN STEINBECK Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are ... JOHN STEINBECK And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing... JOHN STEINBECK Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and ... JOHN STEINBECK Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mi... JOHN STEINBECK No one who is young is ever going to be old. JOHN STEINBECK ..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, an... JOHN STEINBECK It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. JOHN STEINBECK Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag. JOHN STEINBECK A man without words is a man without thought. JOHN STEINBECK When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else... JOHN STEINBECK But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thin... JOHN STEINBECK A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. JOHN STEINBECK People like you to be something, preferably what they are. JOHN STEINBECK