Boris Sidis Quotes
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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As for myself, I was never against Russia.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.
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The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
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Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
