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• Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

  Kurt Lewin

  Events, Different, Environment

  Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Epidemics, Credit, Eczema

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• I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

  William Banting

  Gratitude, Thank You God, Thankfulness

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

  Jung Chang

  Children, Party, Parent

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• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Thinking, Goal

  "Interviews with Speaker Pelosi & Sen. Alexander". "This Week" with Jose Antonio Vargas, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 28, 2010.

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• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Games, Hardship, Barren

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Hangover, Heart

  "Depression and Depression: Paul Krugman, Leonard Cohen and St. Paul" by Christopher Cocca, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Lance Ito

  Media, Cameras, Enough Time

  "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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• People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things...our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, Racism, People

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• I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city.

  Pat Robertson

  Remember You, Remembers You, Cities

  "Robertson: God May Smite Down Town That Voted Out Anti-Evolution School Board". www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2005.

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• As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Thinking, Focus

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• This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

  Jean Baudrillard

  Distance, Spy, Use

  Jean Baudrillard (1998). “The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures”, p.121, SAGE

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• Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, the stakes are greater than even that political prize. If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere. After all, nobody's perfect.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  Country, Mean, Sacrifice

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• There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Mean, Kissing

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• Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Fire, Boss

  "Trump: How to Get Rich". Book by Donald Trump and Meredith McIver, 2004.

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• Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Irony, Hunger

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• You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

  Stewart Brand

  Information

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• Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

  Neelie Kroes

  Deployment, May, Aids

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• For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

  Martin Niemoller

  Men

  Martin Niemöller (1937). “Here stand I!”

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• Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Psychology, Language, Social

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• She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Empathy, Weakness

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.471, Bantam

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Empathy

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• So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Hope, Sick

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Sickness Unto Death”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

  Mark Lynas

  Years, Worst Case Scenario, Climate

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• I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

  Michael Owen

  Believe, Superstitions, Scared

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