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"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."
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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
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"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
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"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."
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"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"
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"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."
Behavior
"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
Evil
"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior
"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
Research
"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."
Psychology
"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
Being
"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."
Life
"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
Education
"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."
Being
"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
Being
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