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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"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."


"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."


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


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


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