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Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity.
Indecision and wishy-washiness.
Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.
I don’t like those people that only want to be nice to people that they consider their equal or above them as far as maybe they’ve got money or something like that.
Cruelty…no, maybe dishonesty or disingenuousness. All are equally deplorable.
Intolerance, which is never far from stupidity.
People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
Being untruthful.
Using knowledge as a weapon.
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