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Quote by Margaret Drabble
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. – Margaret Drabble

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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. – Margaret Drabble

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Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work… I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesnt make you a star. Emotional intelligence can. – Warren Bennis

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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. – Claude Debussy

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