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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out. — Grover Cleveland”
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“A smile is the universal welcome. — Max Eastman”
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“Allowing our loved ones to be themselves as a way of keeping love alive. — Thomas Harris”
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“Ask someone you’d like to know better to list five people he would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about him. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Be as friendly to the janitor as you are to the chairman of the board. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson”
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“Describe what you currently have in relationship to the result you want. — Robert Fritz”
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“Every human being is the center of his or her own human universe. — Bob Burg”
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“Everyone loves praise. Look hard for ways to give it to them. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. — Doug Larson”
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“Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — François de La Rochefoucald”
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“Flattery is telling the other person what he thinks of himself. — Herbert V. Prochnow Jr”
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“For many people, the unknown creates a sense of conflict, disorientation, and discomfort. People often attempt to reduce this experience by pretending to know what they actually do not know. — Robert Fritz”
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“For the parents of a Little Leager, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings. — Earl Wilson”
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“Friendships multiply joys, and divide grief. — Thomas Fuller”
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“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. — Franklin P. Jones, humorist”
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King Jr”
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“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. — D.L. Moody”
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“I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. — Booker T. Washington”
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“If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in. If we think about emotion this way—as outside-in, not inside-out—it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. — Haim Ginott”
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“Introduce yourself to your neighbors as soon as you move into a new neighborhood. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“It is obvious that the majority of people spend more time planning a Christmas party or a vacation than they do planning their lives. — Dennis Waitly”
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“John Elway is a great football player. He used to be my son. Now I’m his father. — Jack Elway”
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“Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. — Mark Twain”
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“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave. — Martin Luther”
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“Make allowances for your friends’ imperfections as readily as you do for your own. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Most people stand so close to themselves that they often confuse who they are with what they have done, are doing, or might do in the future. — Robert Fritz”
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“No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. — Helen Keller”
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“Once we’re part of a group, we’re all susceptible to peer pressure and social norms and any kind of other kinds of influence that can play a critical role in sweeping us up in the beginnings of an epidemic. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“One of the most powerful ways you can create value for people is imply to appreciate them. — Bob Burg”
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“Our conscious brains might be focused on decoding the spoken words in the conversation, but the subconscious does the really heavy lifting, reading the body’s many languages for nonverbal cues that tell us about the other person’s true intentions. — Tonya Reiman”
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“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. — Joseph Fort Newton”
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“People judge you on the first impression you make. — Tonya Reiman”
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“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. — Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes”
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“Prejudice is a disease characterized by hardening of the categories. — William Arthur”
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“Push yourself to smile when you greet or talk to others. — Tim Sanders”
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“Some people feel powerless when confronted with the unknown. — Robert Fritz”
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“Some people who appear to have it all together in public are hurting terribly in private. — Gene Getz”
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