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"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves."


"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."


"What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."


"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."


"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."


"Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience."


"Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure."


"Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order."
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