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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.

Barbara Walters

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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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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People Perfect Talking
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Adults Children Party
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Bigger Castro Feelings
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Girl Marriage Sleep
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
The news media in general are liberals.
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Country Media News
The news media in general are liberals.
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General Liberty Media
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Like Men Talk
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Benefits Office Thinking
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Believe Men Nice
Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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Heart President Worry
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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Obscure People Thinking
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Authority Man Woman
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Clothes Dresses People

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