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• Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition.

  Alan Moore

  Coffee, Thinking, Worry

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• We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

  Jean Vanier

  Clever, Powerful, Thinking

  Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.53, A&C Black

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• The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

  Julian Jaynes

  Space, Mind, Empty

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.365, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.

  Stanley Elkin

  Religious, Philosophy, Self

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• I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

  Toby Young

  Father, People, Parent

  "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.

  Walter Gropius

  Children, Law, Space

  Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius (1968). “Apollo in the democracy: the cultural obligation of the architect”

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• I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

  James Chanos

  Fall, Thinking, Differences

  "Legendary Short Seller Jim Chanos Shares The Method To His Madness" by Linette Lopez, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

  Biz Stone

  College, Psychological Needs, Environment

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

  Amrita Sher-Gil

  Makeup, Taught, Resent

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• The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Boredom, Meditation

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• I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Successful, Self, Organization

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• You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Strong, Looks, Body

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted.

  Steven W. Mosher

  Children, Pregnancy, Abortion

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• For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  Strong, Military, War

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (friherre) (1953). “The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim”

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different races of mankind. Indeed, I would be inclined to suggest that however great may be the physical differences between such races as the European and the Negro, the mental and psychological differences are greater still.

  Louis Leakey

  Stress, Race, Differences

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• The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

  Mike Figgis

  Sound, Harmony, States

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• I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.

  Ennio Morricone

  Animal, Sound, Coyotes

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

  Tim Brown

  Organization, Effectiveness, Space

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• The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Development

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.28, Orient Blackswan

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• The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosopher, Economic, Theoretical

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

  Leroy Chiao

  Space, Energy, Demand

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• Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mind/body complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.

  Layne Redmond

  Healing, Mean, Technology

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