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Quote by Sigmund Freud
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. – Sigmund Freud

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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud

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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. – Sigmund Freud

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Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. – Miguel de Cervantes

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. – Keith Henson

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People will accept your idea more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. – David H. Comins, quoted in The Washingtonian, Volume14, 1978

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