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"The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn."

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press"

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

"Spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them—you're watching somebody doing them."

"Even the eye that is artificially trained to see color as color, apart from things that colors qualify, cannot shut out the resonances and transfers of value."

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about."

"The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs."

"Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings."

"Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files"

"I wanted to become a part of my defense because I am such a part of it. Obviously I'm going to bear the consequences, so why not bear the responsibilities?"

"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."

"Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found."

"Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete."

"Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?"

"The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind!"

"We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for."

"Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous."

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🇺🇸Roger Wolcott Sperry

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1913–1994

"The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere."

"Conflict is viewed as the active striving for one's own preferred outcome which, if attained, precludes the attainment by others of their own preferred outcome, thereby producing hostility."

"Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement."

"I have been accused of being ignorant of economics , of being ignorant of sociology , of being unable to use statistics and of ignoring political factors ."

🇬🇷Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari

"I have always stressed that methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility."

"transmit information without transporting material"

"People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant."

"War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure."

"Attachment is the most powerful force in the universe. We are meant to learn in the context of attachment about what we are attached to, and the things that serve our attachment needs."

"While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general."

"The Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance offers an empirical, total system approach that determines which characteristics of managers enable them to be effective in various management jobs."

"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

"Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests."

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