The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
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Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
