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"Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
Man

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
Trust

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
Progress

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
Illusion

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
Man

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
Dream

"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
Success

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Mistake

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
Experience

"If youth knew; if age could."
Age
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."
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"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."
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Personal Development

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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Personal Development

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."
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Personal Development

"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."
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Personal Development

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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Personal Development

"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."
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Personal Development

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."
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Personal Development

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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Personal Development
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