"Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased."

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Philip Rieff

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“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.”

Source : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
“My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that, and to know when that happens, "Oh, something's going on that's making me feel this way, and if I force my body open a bit, I will feel less powerless."”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.”
“I tend to scare myself.”
“I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.”
“Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books
“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.”

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”
“I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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