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“the masses … must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who accord them what they want.”

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Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“This power is due to the fact that the repeated statement is embedded in the long run in those profound regions of our unconscious selves in which the motives of our actions are forged.”

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Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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“The idea that human nature is perfectible, that under which modernity and the technological project is founded, is completely unbelievable now. Everyone in the sciences now agrees that human nature is fundamentally flawed and animalistic. Even all the socialists and the scientists at this point agree that half of human nature is genetic. This is indirect opposition even to what people believed 10 years ago, that all humans are equal, blank slates who are motivated by social engineering.”

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“No light thing is it, to come back from death, For, in good sooth, the gods of nether gloom Are quick to seize but late and loth to free!”

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Book:The Persians

Source: The Persians

“Endurance and Maturing go hand-in-hand, more you endure, more you mature.”

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Book:The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“The most important difference between men and women is that men get benefit from risk, and women don't. Men wage war, hunt, go on trading expeditions; while women are weighed down firstly by child-bearing and are also just phisically weaker. In game theory terms this creates very different incentives for men is the formation of systems in which men can excel through doing stuff to make themselves more attractive as mates. To women is to mitigate risk as much as humanly possible.”

Society Human Nature Men And Women Gender Roles

Author:Whatifalthist

“Even when people seem to be part of a new world, they will start creating little by little the world that has always been around them. Ironically, people will adapt their new space to look like the old one.”

Human Nature Personality Traits

Author:Mario Silverio

“Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same.”

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Book:How to Read a Book

Source: How to Read a Book

“The guy who talks he biggest game during peacetime training is the first guy to cut and run when the mission goes sideways in the real world.”

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Author:Craig Trebilcock

“Wir mögen uns vielleicht für Retter und Unheilverhinderer halten, tatsächlich aber schauen wir den Dingen seelenruhig beim Entgleisen zu.”

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Book:Aus dem Haus

Source: Aus dem Haus