Derren Brown - Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

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The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

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Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

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The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

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A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.

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