Offer kindness always.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To stay in the moment and live each day to the maximum. You never know when it’s going to be taken away.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗
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It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something because you're smarter than the next guy.
People remember how you make them feel more than they remember what you say or do.
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A travel agent, so I could see the world.
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