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"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."
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"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."

"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."

"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia."

"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."

"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."

"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."

"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."

"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
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