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There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. but the guy whose internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? that's a whole different kettle of envy.

-Jeffrey Kluger

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There Are A Lot Of Ways To

Jeffrey Kluger

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. but the guy whose internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? that's a whole different kettle of envy.

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Envy, envy eats them alive. if you had money, they’d envy you that. but since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. they envy you for just being a happy man. they envy you for not envying them. one of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Envy is the most universal passion. we only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. we envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. we envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. we envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. love creates; envy destroys. love builds up; envy pulls down. love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.

What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? what reasons has he to envy a young person? for the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "no, thank you," he will think. "instead of possibilities, i have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. these sufferings are even the things of which i am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

That was the funniest thing i'd heard in days. you're kidding, right? please tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' life isn't fair, dean....nothing is fair, ever. that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. i need to help you because fair is fair? try, 'i need you to help me so i won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' i might respond to that. maybe.

I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'that's not fair.' when she says that, i say, "honey, you're cute; that's not fair. your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. you were born in america; that's not fair. honey, you had better pray to god that things don't start getting fair for you.

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