Tweets on a single topic ("Haggling") published within a short period.
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Jul 10 2011: Haggling seems so barbaric, but it teaches you to defend your boundaries and assert your wishes. Should be taught in school! [view in context] 5605
Jul 10 2011: In haggling, the buyer offers a ridiculously low price; the seller feigns offense and quotes an absurdly high price. Then they bicker. 5606
Jul 10 2011: Haggling requires that you hide your true intent. Neither side knows the exact price the other is willing to settle for. 5607
Jul 10 2011: Haggling is part of every meaningful social interaction, including love and especially the raising of children. 5608
Jul 10 2011: Children are the consummate hagglers. They'll weasel everything out of you that you let them get away with. 5609Jul 10 2011: Saturday night drag races, Terre Haute, Indiana. Where men are men and women are bored silly. http://twitpic.com/5nt0jg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5610
Jul 10 2011: "Tweet like a model" means report every meal, photo shoot and gym workout and say "OMG, so sad!" for every natural disaster. 5611
Jul 10 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: Staying with someone because you don't want to hurt their feelings will eventually hurt their feelings. 5612
Jul 10 2011: @xtinewu If you had invested in a flying car you wouldn't have these problems. #Carmageddon 5613
Jul 10 2011: "Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness." <== Latest from the @DalaiLama Automatic Tweet Generator. 5614
Jul 10 2011: Playing dead during a bear attack neglects one fact of nature: Once a bear kills something it usually eats it. 5615
Jul 10 2011: "The best way to teach people is by telling a story." —Kenneth Blanchard via @GreatestQuotes 5616
Jul 10 2011: When bad things happen to Rupert Murdoch, schadenfreude is not inappropriate. 5617Jul 10 2011: State of the art: 3 terabytes for $160. That would hold my life's work to date, including video. http://twitpic.com/5o6d92←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5618
Jul 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Learn the art of bitter sarcasm. [See Full Bucket List] 5619
Jul 10 2011: irony + bitterness = sarcasm 5620
Jul 10 2011: The foundation of all great art is irony—the opposite happening from what is normally expected. 5621
Jul 10 2011: .@nainysahani Home is an imaginary concept, not an achievable destination. 5622
Jul 10 2011: Our childhood is the lens through which we will always view the world. 5623
Jul 10 2011: ++++ Begin tweeted essay: "The Lessons of Wile E. Coyote" 5624
Jul 10 2011: Wile E. Coyote is so like the rest of us! One Acme device backfires so he tries another, never rethinking his deluded mission. 5625
Jul 10 2011: Wile E. Coyote has plenty of will and perseverance. He works hard, believes in himself and never gives up, so why can't he succeed? 5626
Jul 10 2011: The Coyote fails because he misses the point. He obsesses over a goal while losing sight of his purpose. 5627
Jul 10 2011: The road to success is not just perseverance and hard work but adjusting your goals according to the feedback you receive. 5628
Jul 10 2011: Parenting isn't just a matter of laying down the law. Both sides have to negotiate for what they want. 5629
Jul 11 2011: Those who advocate total openness fail to understand the social importance of haggling—and of guarding ones intent. 5630
Jul 11 2011: It is one thing to lie, quite another to not reveal everything you know. Lying is usually bad, but concealing is essential to society. 5631
Jul 11 2011: When talking to even the closest friend, no sane person would blurt out everything they are thinking. 5632
Jul 11 2011: It would be nice to be able to speak your mind to everyone, but with many people it's just not possible. You know they'll react badly. 5633
Jul 11 2011: Concealing your thoughts means you can focus on the issue at hand: getting the behavior you want from the other party. 5634
Jul 11 2011: The main purpose of human interaction is not to change someone's attitudes or beliefs but to get the behavior you want from them. 5635
Jul 11 2011: #### End live-tweeted essay: "Haggling" [view in context]
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