Your lowest moment is temporary.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Stay out of other people’s business.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
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View all 137 →Be true to yourself.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
It is necessary, I believe, to accept this idea, not only for science, but also for other things; it is of great value to acknowledge ignorance. It is a fact that when we make decisions in our life we don't necessarily know that we are making them correctly; we only think that we are doing the best we can – and that is what we should do.
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View profile →Gloria Hunniford’s wedding at Hever Castle 20-odd years ago. We had a lovely buffet and a few drinks and then I had to get a cab back to the train station. I said to the driver: “I’m ever so sorry, but I’m not going to be able to hang on till I get to the train. Could you possibly take me down this alleyway?” He said: “Yes, of course.” As I prepared myself to go “to the ladies”, this police car came along and the policeman said: “Hi-de-Hi!”
Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
Dying too young, and spiders.
People who aren’t kind enough.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
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