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Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts. ↗

— Alice Miller

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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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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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