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“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”

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“We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.”

People Way Mean Use Loss Growing Psychiatry Selected Personhood Growing Knowledge

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.”

Play Character Feelings Action Vacuums Selected Suspended Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Uta Hagen

“... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.”

Love Heart Known Surrender Selected

Author:George Santayana

“As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.”

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.”

Knows Want Inspirational Book Whole Stories Lines Judging Granted Judgement Selected Judging A Book By Its Cover

Author:Axl Rose

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”

Persons Real Character Difficult Personality Endless Eras Collections Traits Selected Personality Traits

Book:The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

“We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out”

Ifs Believe Faces Desire Causes Hurt Pay Machines Moved Constant Affection Disappointment Partners Hopefully Intensity Wiser Selected Moved On Casinos Slot Machines Jackpot

Author:Paul Dini

“Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.”

Thinking Chamber Whips Selected Eunuchs

Author:Michael Foot

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.”

People Persons Feelings Values Ability Vision Environment Conditions Circumstances Essence Driven Impulse Subordinates Selected Proactive 7 Habits

Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.”

Problem Given Answers Depends Approach Myth Historian Documents Embarrassing Trembling Selected Embarrassing Questions

Book:The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion

Source: The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion

“Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.”

Government Century Standards Gold Mediums Stable Providing Commodity Desirable Free Market Monetary Selected Best Money

Book:What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Source: What Has Government Done to Our Money?

“Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.”

Doe Past Choices Attention Mistake Our Lives Importance Painful Versions Damage Resentment Considering Psychiatrist Psychologist Selected

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'”