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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  Otto Rank

  Future, Creativity, Civilization

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• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Expectations, Progress

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• Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

  Howard Schultz

  Reading, Listening, News

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• I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

  Ayrton Senna

  Body, Way, My Own

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• Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

  Michael Shermer

  Faith, Religious, Emotional

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• Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

  Sargent Shriver

  Believe, Sacrifice, Dignity Of Work

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• Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

  Allen Tate

  Theory, Deals, Compensation

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Journey, Thinking, Musician

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• Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

  Paul Tournier

  Spiritual, Thinking, Mind

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Emotional, People

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• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  Lee Westwood

  Success, Golf, Games

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• One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Heroic, Process

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

  Helen Fisher

  Jealous, Insecure, People

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• Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

  Helen Fisher

  Love, Men, Talking

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• Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.

  Helen Fisher

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "Love, sex and the changing landscape of infidelity" by Tara Parker-Pope, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2008.

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• The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Order, Effectiveness

  Douglas Rushkoff (2006). “ScreenAgers: Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids”, Hampton Press (NJ)

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• Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

  Philip Pullman

  Religious, Moving, Makeup

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• It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

  Michel Foucault

  Gay, Thinking, Yield

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• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Covered Up, Security Guards

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Circles, Ideas, Squares

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• His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Simple, New Experiences

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

  Steve Martin

  Warfare, Care, Psychological Warfare

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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