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The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.
You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.
In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.
I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.
I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.
If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.
The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.
If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.
Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs
Focusing on the unmet need (not the judgment) is more likely to get the need met.
I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it.
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.
Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.
A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.