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Quotes by Psychologist
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
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"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
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"The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness."
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"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision."
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"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."
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"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
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"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
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"Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth."
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"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery."
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"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
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"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."
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"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
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"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."
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"Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish."
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"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
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"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."
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"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner."
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"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
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"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
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"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
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"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."
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"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
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"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
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"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
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"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."
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"No man will work for your interests unless they are his."
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"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
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"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."
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"The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned."
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"When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins."
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"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
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"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
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"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
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"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
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