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“Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.”

People Want Needs Looks May Sometimes Political Missing Perspective Psychological Haiti

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Men May Important Certain Economy Achieve He Man Morality Activity Aim Important Things Speed Psychological Certainty Keep Going Predecessors Market Economy

Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.”

Ifs May Loses Lines Study Military Balance Approach Aspect Sight Strategy Resistance Psychological Appeals Opponents Indirect Obviousness

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.”

People May Certain Taste Eating Extremes Smell Psychological Disorder Discomfort Texture Eating Disorder Selective Picky

Author:Emily Yoffe

“A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.”

May Art States Numbers Quality Study Degrees Concepts Tradition Infinite Traditional Psychological Merit Remarkable Works Of Art Glances Nostalgic Feats Newness Craftsmanship

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.”