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"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."
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"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."
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"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."
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"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."
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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
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"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
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"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
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"There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink."
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"I wasn't angry the night I shot him."
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
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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
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
Technology
"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."
Time
"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
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