"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"

Behavior, Delusion, Denial, Truth, Fear

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"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"

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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."

Willard Gaylin, American Scientist

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Politeness is organized indifference."

Paul Valery, French Poet

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"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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

Lord Byron, British Poet

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

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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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."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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

Marie Lu, American Author

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"Calvin: Why are you crying mom?Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables."

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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

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"I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here."

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"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."

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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."

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

"Politeness is organized indifference."

"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."

"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

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

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

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

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

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"Calvin: Why are you crying mom?Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

"I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here."

"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."

"Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?"

"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."

"There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late."

"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."

"If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life."