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Quotes by Psychologist
"I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies."
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"The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions."
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"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
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"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
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"You're lonely, they say,but it doesn't scare me anymorefor it teaches me,and maybe that's the biggest win from these years:I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,like I always thought I would.I don't break mirrors anymore,like I always thought I would. I can finally stand myself,and I never thought I would."
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"The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
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"We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh airand realise you can't get up. You're too far down."
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"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."
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"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
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"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
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"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."
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"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
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"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
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"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
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"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior."
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"Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out."
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"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
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"I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour."
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"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."
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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation."
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"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands."
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"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency."
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"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Love,
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
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"The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally."
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"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
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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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"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person."
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"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
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"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
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"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
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