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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 fail better next time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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Eleanor Tomlinson
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Talk to people. Learn from them. And put your phone away.
George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
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.
Always sleep on any decision.
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Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
That fear becomes too great.
I haven't seen a ghost yet.
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