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Everything written has a political bearing, even in the case of a study on bees.

The destruction of psychological Truth by literal truth is the continual drama of human life.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Mauricio Salles Vasconcelos

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Never in history have lies been such vital instruments of diplomacy and policy.

The damage to their prestige and confidence would have been immense, and Churchill might not have survived as prime minister through 1941.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time ("Spanish Generosity")

I Cover the Waterfront

Monopsychism, then. Some writers do say Jung really meant that--that the collective unconscious is the sum total of human experience and somehow you've found a way to tap into that knowledge.

Man has not really vanquished shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghost or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit

The radical elimination of magic from the world allowed no other psychological course than the practice of worldly asceticism. Since

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

Especially begging, on the part of one able to work, is not only the sin of slothfulness, but a violation of the duty of brotherly love according to the Apostle's own word. 

The influence of the God-fearing but perfectly unemotional wisdom of the Hebrews, which is expressed in the books most read by the Puritans, the

spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole

My global PR revolution thesis will certainly not go down without criticism. The most severe criticism should be expected from the people who don`t know the PR industry. They might say, Revolution? What revolution? Facebook is just out there anyway!