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"I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
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"We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don't know who we are in reality."
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"A complex is stealing energy from our personality."
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"A 'biomass' man lives by his instincts."
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"All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society."
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"Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is)."
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"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."
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"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
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"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."
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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
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"Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.)."
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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Art
"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
Society
"I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his quarrel before that invisible Court of Arbitration with which all religion is concerned. Unless he thinks he is vitally, eternally, cosmically in the right, he is wrong to fire off a pocket-pistol."
War
"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
Man
"...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy."
Philosophy
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
Man
"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
Happiness
"It will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact."
Humor
"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."
Society
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