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"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."
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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."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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"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."
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Personal Development

"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."
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Personal Development

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

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

"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."
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Personal Development

"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."
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Personal Development

"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."
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Personal Development

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"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."
Public


"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations."
Interest


"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."
Character


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


"Society is unity in diversity."
Society


"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."
Experience


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


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


"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."
Beauty


"No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology."
Psychology
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