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So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”
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Happiness Himself Man Old
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
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Action Breed Confidence Doubt Fear
Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Chance Life One Liner
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Fun People Rare
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try Yourself
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
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Enemy Hurt Ourselves Time Try Wasted Time
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Classification Contact Evaluation Way World
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Believe Success Willing Yourself
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
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Attitude Charge Choice Yourself
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Apply Knowledge Power
Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
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Himself Lonely Person Walk Way World
If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!
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Action Assumption Ourselves Poor Talk
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
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Encouragement Goodness Listening Talk
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Change Ideas Mindset Open Opinion Progress Yourself
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
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Condition Control Happiness Listening Seek Thinking World Yourself

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So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

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