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"Man lives in a world of meaning."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
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"Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure."


"What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."


"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations."


"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."


"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."


"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."


"Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order."


"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."
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