"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort."

-- Mason Cooley

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“I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mr. George Feeny". "Boy Meets World. Long Walk to Pittsburgh: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1997.
“The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectivelyâ€”intuitivelyâ€”the camera can write poetry.”
“My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.”
“The people in the West are supposed to believe that Bahrain is a country whose people live a life of peace, but we suffer under a regime that does not want to hear our screaming. The people of more than 20 villages are participating in the protests. They are fed up with the fact that they cannot express their opinions freely.”
“There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black
“Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.”
“One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.”
“Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.”

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