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“No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.”
Source : John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.20, Routledge
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“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...”
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“Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.”
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“If you desire truly to live you will cease trying to find magic tricks and short-cuts to life and learn the simple laws of being, and order your life in conformity with these. Realign your life with the laws of nature—this and this alone constitutes living to live.”
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“I hate thin people; 'Oh, does the tampon make me look fat?'”
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“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
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“All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.”
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“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”