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"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies."
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Personal Development
"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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Personal Development
"It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting."
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"It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce."
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Personal Development
"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody."
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Personal Development
"Credit you give yourself is not worth having."
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Personal Development
"You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate."
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Personal Development
"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
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Personal Development
"I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it."
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Personal Development
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."
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"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."
Attention
"Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success."
Success
"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."
Now
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
Change
"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
Afghanistan
"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
Intelligence
"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
Growth
"Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors."
Success
"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
Success
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
Family
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