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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Incompetent leadership.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2013 source ↗
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When people talk over others.
Ada Yonath
Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
people in power tend to take advantage of that power and this can be both men and women.
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Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.
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