"The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous."

-- Jerome K. Jerome

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“Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed...”
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”
“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.”
“The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.”
“I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.”
“Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods!”
“The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.”

Source : Attributed to Locker's Greenwich Gallery article "Torrington" in Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan "The Life of Nelson, Volume 2: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain" (p. 52), 1897.

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