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It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A one dollar bill, though it weighs less than 99 pennies, is psychologically heavier. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference. ↗

— Thomas Harris

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Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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There is nothing so whole as a broken heart. ↗

— Menachem Mendel

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He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. ↗

— Ken Kesey

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