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It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#enough #heaven #horrors #human #human mind

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home. ↗

— Ruby Wax

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I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#combine #i #proteins

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#barely #could #divine #film #football

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#make #some #you