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Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

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Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

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When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him.

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