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High-maintenance person: easy to upset; difficult to please.
Low maintenance person: difficult to upset; easy to please.

(by Mark Goulston in Do YOU Practice the Golden Rule? Take the Double Standard Assessment Test )
Synergy: 1 + 1 = 3
Compromise: 1 + 1 = 1 ½

(by Stephen Covey from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
Knowledge: knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom: not putting it in your fruit salad.

(by Peter Kay)
Neurosis: just a high-class word for whining. (Albert Ellis)

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