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“We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.”
Ivan Turgenev
Identity
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Russia
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Growth
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Personality
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Culture
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“I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.”
Ivan Turgenev
Love
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Personality
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Growth
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Fulfillment
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Emotion
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“I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia’s neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today’s bland daytime soaps.”
Camille Paglia
Personality
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Society
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Entertainment
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Media
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Culture
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“Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.”
Camille Paglia
Psychology
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Gifts
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Behavior
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Sociopathy
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Personality
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“I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.”
Camille Paglia
Politics
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Admiration
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Leadership
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Personality
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Strength
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“Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.”
Camille Paglia
Personality
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Will
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Boundaries
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Identity
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Relationships
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“I am a very reclusive, private person.”
Camille Paglia
Reclusive
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Privacy
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Solitude
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Personality
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Introversion
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“Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.”
Camille Paglia
Cats
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Self-interest
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Animals
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Power
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Personality
9.
“Steve Jobs proves that it’s OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.”
Guy Kawasaki
Steve Jobs
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Leadership
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Personality
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Technology
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Success
10.
“A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.”
Guy Kawasaki
Likability
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Communication
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Leadership
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Personality
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Success
11.
“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”
Guy Kawasaki
Passion
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Personality
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Success
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Influence
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Attraction
12.
“I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices – made up of likings and dislikings.”
Charles Lamb
Prejudices
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Personality
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Bias
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Opinions
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Identity
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“When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‘Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.’”
Steven Wright
Childhood
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Humor
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Reflection
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Comedy
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Personality
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“My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.”
Steven Wright
Comedy
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Act
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Expression
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Performance
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Personality
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“I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.”
Steven Wright
Personality
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Thinking
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Chaos
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Humor
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Perception
16.
“I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.”
Steven Wright
Humor
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Personality
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Friendship
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Introvert
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Attention
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“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
V.S. Naipaul
Conversation
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Personality
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Social Interaction
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Depth
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Attention
18.
“In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.”
V.S. Naipaul
Reputation
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Personality
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Perception
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Identity
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Experience
19.
“I’m not a clone of anybody. I’m Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.”
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Individuality
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Identity
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Confidence
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Uniqueness
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Personality
20.
“There are two types of people in the world, my young friend. One type is people-oriented. When they make conversation, it is about people – what people are doing, what someone said, how someone feels. The other group is idea-oriented. When they make conversation, they talk about ideas and concepts and objects.”
Scott Adams
People
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Mindset
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Communication
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Personality
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Perspective
21.
“You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.”
Scott Adams
People
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Personality
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Relationships
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Understanding
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Observation
22.
“I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.”
Leonard Cohen
Dramatization
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Life
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Forever
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Personality
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Expression
23.
“Obviously, I’ve made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that’s the way I always was.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Personality
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Authenticity
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Boldness
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Confidence
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Expression
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“I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Passion
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Energy
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Drive
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Motivation
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Personality
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“I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Success
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Integrity
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Personality
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Confidence
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Mindset
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“If I see a girl with big tits, I’m going to stare and stare. And I’m going to think in my mind what I am going to do with her if I would have her.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Controversy
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Humor
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Perspective
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Personality
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Perception
27.
“I am not a politician, and my other habits are also good.”
Anton Chekhov
Politics
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Habits
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Personality
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Integrity
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Perspective
28.
“He told lies with the same relish with which he ate herring and drank.”
Anton Chekhov
Lies
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Deception
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Habit
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Behavior
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Personality
29.
“I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.”
Anton Chekhov
Detachment
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Practicality
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Reflection
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Personality
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Isolation
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“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”
Anton Chekhov
Solitude
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Isolation
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Nature
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Personality
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Retreat
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