Boris Sidis Quotes
Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
