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"People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter."
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"If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society."

"Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right?"

"Never force a man to do your wish, but let them wish to do it by force."

"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."

"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"

"If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains."

"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

"People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter."
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"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular."

"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times."

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."

"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."
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