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"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"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
"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
Evil
"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
"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
Family
"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior
"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
Education
"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"
People
"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
History
"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
Passion
"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
Being
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