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A conversation isn’t a competition.

Barbara Walters

It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Believe Buddhism Heaven
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Instance Milk Party
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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Dream Gains Helping Others
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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Acceptance Inspirational Women
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Cream Heaven Ice Ideas
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Modern Party Share
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Firsts
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Self Sleep
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report
The news media in general are liberals.
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