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John Steinbeck

"Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have."

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"Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have."

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"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."

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"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

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"Politeness is organized indifference."

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"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."

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"A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf."

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"There is 'Soul' even in other living beings. 'Lion', or 'deer', is the ego, but within them is the Soul. Therefore, if you take into consideration the type of ego of every living being and interact accordingly, your work will get done. A lion cannot be provoked but if you provoke a dog, it will run away."

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"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."

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"I find myself pausing to admire her face.For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings."

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"With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy."

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"Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex, they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then."

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"... you can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it."
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