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Physical inertia favors mental passivity and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion.

Though invisible, its forces are mighty. Within your subconscious mind you will find the solution for every problem, and the cause

As previously pointed out, the greatest function of the objective mind is that of reasoning.

In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.

If I had to pick the single most powerful force in advertising and selling—the most important psychological trigger—I would pick honesty.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Life is usually loved more than our most sacred love. In that knowledge lies the beginning of our cruelty and of our survival.

We have no empirical evidence of something emerging without a cause from absolute nothing.

Collection or an appropriate subtype is generally the best return type for a public, sequence- returning method.

Given the difficulty of using wait and notify correctly, you should use the higher-level concurrency utilities instead.

If you're reading this on a screen, fuck off. I'll only talk if I'm gripped with both hands.

If you hate the Yankees so much," Connie asked me, "why did you move to New York?" "To find out what kind of city could make a monster like a Yankees fan.

His reason and his logic," said his friend James Matheny, "swallowed up all his being.

us both that his attempt

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it's funny, because it's so completely random to me. It's senseless.

It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. -- Malcolm Reynolds

This, children, is Kitty Pryde, who apparently feels the need to make a grand entrance. I'm sorry. I was busy remembering to put all my clothes on.

The question that comes up when you write about trauma is, are you retraumatizing? Are you retraumatizing by writing about trauma? That's a good question. I remember the writer, poet Meridel Le Sueur, social activist in the '30, calling to tell me when I was a young woman, she said: "I wrote so beautifully about terrible things that happened. And was I wrong to do that?

the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

But thinking it my duty to stretch the flayed skin of my childhood on some sort of skeleton of convention

She understood that a woman's work inside the home is not work but sacred privilege and duty.

Just to pose certain questions is, I guess, to show your hope they can be answered.