Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
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When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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Unwillingness to change.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
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I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
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