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492 Psychologist Quotes

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Because Case Conservatives Dominate
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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Anything Away Ever Gets
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Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Complex Else Everything Everything Else
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To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Master New New Technology Play
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The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Appalling History Idea Oppressed
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If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Absolutely Any Any Circumstances Circumstances
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The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

Admit Itself Jobs People
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The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Cognitive Differences Force Massive
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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Convincing Health Inequality Instability
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You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings.

Been Beings Cyberspace Different
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I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Beats Big Big Fan Civilization
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Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Always Been Intrinsic Me
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You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Good Good Reason Other People
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I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Am Detest Going I Am
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It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Difficult Learn Over Regulate
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It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

City Difficult More Rule
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You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Another Because Hierarchy Means
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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Associate Deeper Human Human Nature
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People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Absolute Been Diet Fed
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It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Find Happiness Impulsive Life
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I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Generally Like People Speaking
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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Bad Carpenter Houses I Can
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt
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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Capacity Development Freedom Hand
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A mind cannot be independent of culture.
Cannot Culture Independent Mind
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What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

Alone Child Cooperation He
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Abstract Activity Birth Course
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In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Above Age Always Average
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A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Achievements Action Basic Become
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Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

Calculus Differential Discovery Even
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Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Also Applied Everyone Feelings
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Adult Also Being Beyond
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself

Being Betrayed Express Ideas
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Construct Depression Future Inability
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

Care Does Human Matter
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Battle Courage Easier Freedom
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Apathy Hate Love Opposite
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Accompanies Based Being Beings
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

About Care Good Good Life
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Beings Faster Habit Human
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One does not become fully human painlessly.

Become Does Fully Human
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Absence Ahead Capacity Courage
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Communication Community Intimacy Leads
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Capacity Choose Freedom Human
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Conformity Courage Cowardice Opposite
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The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

Arises Both Capacity Dilemma
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The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.

Age Anxiety Atomic Brought
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The striking thing about love and will in our day is that, whereas in the past they were always held up to us as the answer to life's predicaments, they have now themselves become the problem.

About Always Answer Become
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It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.

Age Degree Everyone Fact
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Basis Century Chief Clinical
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