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“Guide to the Stanley Milgram Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library”

“'The Man Who Shocked the World' article in Psychology Today by Thomas Blass”

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“The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”

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"Money is the lifeblood of startups. You stay in business until you run out of it."

— Steve Blank

Education1953

#life

"But, no. It was too late. Fortune’s die was cast. The cruel game had to be played to its end, no matter what anyone wanted."

— Glen Cook

Literature1944

#life

"And then you know I can use the biological example too, which would place me outside of the postmodern realm of argument, because the postmodernists don't believe in biology but they act like they do …"

— Jordan Peterson

Politics1962

#life

"The White Man is tremendously creative. He is the greatest builder the world has ever known. He is the builder of the world civilizations and world empires. Unfettered and unhampered, what the White R…"

— Ben Klassen

Politics1918–1993

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