People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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Be kind to people who are different from you.

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Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

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I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

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Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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