The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSMost attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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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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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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