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...least giving the appearance of deferring--to others. Otherwise, even the smartest comments would "occasion envy and disgust." His secret for how to win friends and influence people read like an early Dale Carnegie course: "Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others... Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them...
...reasonable to expect all of them to have equal pedagogical skills. Harvard needs money, and thus must on occasion bite the bullet and accept sub-par students whose names coincide with those on its buildings. Some things just are the way they are. C’est la vie. Que sera, sera...
...Lowkeys waited until this year to vie for Sanders rights because they wanted to be sure that they had demonstrated their cause fully. They did so by selling out Lowell Lecture Hall and Paine Hall twice for free, and selling out Paine a final time with paid tickets...
...HRCF would not mandate a secularization of religious based organizations. There are many reasons why an individual may want to help lead HRCF—and a student interested in prayer, socializing and community service who does not believe in the resurrection could make a great leader. In a vie for these roles, students should be weighed on their ability to fulfill the group’s mission, and they should not be excluded for because of a reluctance to accept certain tenets...
Then it’s the virgins’ turn. Dozens of audience members with red lipstick V’s smeared on their foreheads vie to be pulled on stage in a competition to see who can give the best 20-second lap dance. When audience applause deems Vicki the winning virgin, her row of friends stands and cheers...