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"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
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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."
"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."
"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."
"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."
"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."
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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
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