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we can hold multiple, contradictory truths

Nicolae Maniu, L'Interstice de la vie, 2003 Everyone has a foil, a personality type that really grates on them. For me, it’s people who are super anal and micromanager-y. The reason is because I have my own inner task master, and that voice is constantly pushing me to get X done by Y date. But I don’t manifest my task master outwardly because I don’t particularly like that part of me. I think it’s a useful part, but if it were a person, I wouldn’t want to introduce her to my friends. It’s amazing how well I’ve hidden that part. No one who knows me would call me anal or bossy. I think your…

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