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• Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.

  Daniel Handler

  Done, World, Easier

  "The Vile Village (Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), May 2001.

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• My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Hatred, Vices

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Demographics, Delusion

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• All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Sick, Mind

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

  Tony Kushner

  Unions, Humans, Human Society

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• I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

  Will Ferrell

  Saws, Entertainment, Grew Up

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• Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Feelings, Evaluation

  "Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Alec flushed. "I think it's more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming." Jace glared at him. "Maybe not at the moment," Alec amended. "But you're usually charming. And faeries are very susceptible to charm." "Plus, if you stay here, I've got the whole first season of Gilligan's Island on DVD," Magnus said. "No one could turn that down," said Jace. He still wouldn't look at Clary.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Valentine, Son

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  Charles Dickens

  Christian, Regret, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Spurs, Research

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• The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Analysis, Logical

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.7, Routledge

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• Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Law, Essence

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.19, Routledge

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.

  Anthony of Padua

  God, Wise, Heart

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• I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Fields

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.556

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• The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

  Swami Brahmananda

  Learning, Mind, Suggestions

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• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Temptation

  Hannah More (1818). “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, to General Society: An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont. And Tracts Written During the Riots of 1817”, p.9

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• A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

  Pico Iyer

  Movement, Transformation, Committed

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• We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, Urban Legends, Self

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

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• Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Men, Example

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.98

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• We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Ignorance, Track, Ignorant

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• The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

  Douglas Adams

  Heart, Simple, Night

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Discovery, Belief

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2010). “The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Heart, Character, Personality

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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