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dd54f64 Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink. self-mastery Evangeline Walton
68bb5cf Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles. Evangeline Walton
d30d7e3 Questions can be more dangerous than swords. questions swords Evangeline Walton
b5d0fd5 For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could. illusions joiners skeptics traditions unpleasant-truths Evangeline Walton
1765823 A true king never robs his people of peace. peace Evangeline Walton
a067b8d Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with. leadership Evangeline Walton
0b156db If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed. Evangeline Walton
0739ffb He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. Augustine of Hippo
029bb60 So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity. Augustine of Hippo
ac7c5ef Social scientists have determined that we accept inner responsibility for a behavior when we think we have chosen to perform it in the absence of strong outside pressures. Robert B. Cialdini
8aa7797 She had known that he could move quickly. Still it was a shock when she found herself pressed against the back of her seat, his face inches from her. "God's blood, woman, how much control do you think I have?" he whispered, his clove-scented breath brushing her face. "You must think me a saint by the way you harangue me despite my warnings. Listen and listen well: ." "But I don't need a saint," she breathed, her voice trembling. "I don't .. passionate-kiss raphael-de-chartres savage Elizabeth Hoyt
b8b8cd0 whkdh yublG fy ltfSyl 'w yuHdhf mnh, wfqan ltfw'l 'w tshw'm mn ynqlwn lm`lwmt José Saramago
f40e629 You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life. Augustine of Hippo
4e2faef As the stimuli saturating our lives continue to grow more intricate and variable, we will have to depend increasingly on our shortcuts to handle them all. Robert B. Cialdini
1ccbd67 Now, during the tourist season, she first tries to speed the sale of an item that has been difficult to move by increasing its price substantially. Robert B. Cialdini
557a84e During the Korean War, many captured American soldiers found themselves in prisoner-of-war (POW) camps run by the Chinese Communists. It became clear early in the conflict that the Chinese treated captives quite differently than did their allies, the North Koreans, who favored savagery and harsh punishment to gain compliance. Specifically avoiding the appearance of brutality, the Red Chinese engaged in what they termed their "lenient policy.. Robert B. Cialdini
c2ffeb7 Notice that all of the foot-in-the-door experts seem to be excited about the same thing: You can use small commitments to manipulate a person's self-image; you can use them to turn citizens into "public servants," prospects into "customers," prisoners into "collaborators." And once you've got a man's self-image where you want it, he should comply naturally with a whole range of your requests that are consistent with this view of himself." Robert B. Cialdini
6282767 It states that one means we use to determine what is correct is to find out what other people think is correct. Robert B. Cialdini
9250cc2 Do not seek dishonest gains; dishonest Robert B. Cialdini
94482c4 to make it climb, make it rhyme. Within Robert B. Cialdini
32c21b4 Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung." Robert B. Cialdini
04f6c80 Little wonder, then, that the influential French anthropologist Marcel Mauss, in describing the social pressures surrounding the gift-giving process in human culture, can state, "There is an obligation to give, an obligation to receive, and an obligation to repay."12" Robert B. Cialdini
ce0822e WHO WE ARE IS WHERE WE ARE Whenever Robert B. Cialdini
13cd279 But the rule for reciprocation, which states that those who give first are entitled to receive in return, Robert B. Cialdini
e24e184 We have all seen children of this sort, terribly shy, standing alone at the fringes of the games and groupings of their peers. O'Connor worried that a long-term pattern of isolation was forming, even at an early age, that would create persistent difficulties in social comfort and adjustment through adulthood. In an attempt to reverse the pattern, O'Connor made a film containing eleven different scenes in a nursery-school setting. Each scene.. Robert B. Cialdini
338ffda Lastly, these findings tell me that the answer to the question of whether, as a group, MDs are primarily patient-serving or self-serving is . . . yes. They are each, depending on their attentional focus at the time. Robert B. Cialdini
75cd2d6 The messenger is the message." Of" Robert B. Cialdini
83bfe15 the recipe for disharmony was quick and easy: Just separate the participants into groups and let sit for a while in their own juices. Robert B. Cialdini
484b6e5 The noted archaeologist Richard Leakey ascribes the essence of what makes us human to the reciprocity system: "We are human because our ancestors learned to share their food and their skills in an honored network of obligation,"9" Robert B. Cialdini
7993df4 People rarely make decisions in a vacuum; in other words, our choices are almost always influenced by context, Robert B. Cialdini
202a0cf This parallel form of human automatic action is aptly demonstrated in an experiment by Harvard social psychologist Ellen Langer. A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do. Langer demonstrated this unsurprising fact by asking a small favor of people waiting in line to use a library copying machi.. Robert B. Cialdini
8429630 through centuries of experience, the female hunters have located a weakness in their prey--a special blinking courtship code by which members of the victims' species tell one another they are ready to mate. Somehow, the Photuris female has cracked the Photinus courtship code. By mimicking the flashing mating signals of her prey, the murderess is able to feast on the bodies of males whose triggered courtship tapes cause them to fly mechanica.. Robert B. Cialdini
350988f You use your cuts to get people to swing attention to the parts of your message you really want them to focus on. Robert B. Cialdini
aa9a17e The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it. Robert B. Cialdini
7943cfb A person's inaction is the result of the inaction of all the others, making conclusions that there is nothing necessary to be done. 30 Minutes Flip
fa426e8 there's a telling answer to the question of what Albert Einstein claimed was so remarkable it could be labeled as both "the most beautiful thing we can experience" and "the source of all true science and art." His contention: the mysterious." Robert B. Cialdini
7d6230d Price alone had become a trigger feature for quality; and a dramatic increase in price alone had led to a dramatic increase in sales among the quality-hungry buyers. Click, whirr! Robert B. Cialdini
b06e66d In Korea, the product was a brand of Chinese communism; in the United States, it might be a brand of cuticle remover. The Robert B. Cialdini
fde9739 Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. --ROBERT CIALDINI B Robert B. Cialdini
673969d In the realm of self-correction mechanisms, then, we can find another source of validation for a core tenet of pre-suasion: immediate, large-scale adjustments begin frequently with practices that do little more than redirect attention.69 Robert B. Cialdini
c5b9213 Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all. Augustine of Hippo
33bf80f extensive analysis requires more time, energy, and motivation. As a consequence, its impact on our decisions is limited by the rigor it requires. If we don't have the wherewithal (time, capacity, will) to think hard about a choice, we're unlikely to deliberate deeply. Robert B. Cialdini
52df90b Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Or, at least, so goes a frequently heard quotation attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson." Robert B. Cialdini
52b8115 we are trained from childhood to chafe, emotionally, under the saddle of obligation. Robert B. Cialdini