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We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. – Alan Watts	added by JokerGem 4 months ago
maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 11 months ago
It’s a very vital sense. Smell was also very important in the past and it was probably even more important because in the past not everything was so sanitized. – Barbara Huber	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Since the space has been undergoing important conservation work in the last few years, and the collection was removed, it is reasonable to assume the scent has gone, now the preservation kit we created…(is) now the only existing archive of a lost heritage smell. – Cecilia Bembibre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Last July I noticed my water kept getting a little bit redder and the smell was a little bit stronger. – West Virginia	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You could smell the iron – there was so much blood. – Kathlene Torres	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it. – James Sherman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The smell was terrible and made it very hard to breathe, i was coughing a lot for a good two hours after. – Joseph Fleck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The chemical smell was so strong that it made me nauseous, i just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids. – Amanda Greathouse	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments. – Andie MacDowell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Smell disorder typically resolved at about 9 months, but when they were present concentration and memory changes tended to be more persistent. – Peter Openshaw	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested. – Merlin Sheldrake	added by Greying_Geezer 1 year ago
There was all this popping and smoke, i can still smell the gunpowder to this day. – Lynda Vanartsdalen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The sounds were loud and there were just a lot of them, you could smell the sulfur from the guns and debris was flying across the room and the students were crying. – Dara Haas	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Maybe I have a New York nose – I'm not smelling the filth. The number one thing I smell right now is pot – like everybody is smoking a joint now, you know? – New York	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We were barbecuing the other day and Azeneth Rodriguez was like,' What is that smell, that burn smell ?' and I was like,' What is wrong ?' And he just said,' I smell that smoky smell -- and that's the way we were in the classroom.'. – Noah Oronas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
' flowers while he's still well enough to smell them. – Oprah Winfrey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Since you cannot smell or see carbon monoxide, taking the appropriate steps and asking these important questions prior to signing anything is extremely important. – Jennifer McCormick	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We smell tear gas and the children of one of the members are in the office sobbing with fear. I expect a [June]-24 committee to be created immediately. – Some Republicans	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Oh God, You can smell it from here. how much have you had to drink tonight ? – David Koechner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The best smell in the world is that man that you love. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
The doors were barricaded with debris, i could see fleas and bugs and piles from floor to ceiling, and I can smell urine and feces. – Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I smell a sell-out coming when it comes to Ukraine. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think the Ukrainians can win but what breaks my heart is that it appears to me that Biden is more worried about Putin losing that Ukraine winning. And that is despicable and sad. i smell a sell-out coming when it comes to Ukraine. – Lindsey Graham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

– Alan Watts

added by JokerGem
4 months ago

maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
11 months ago

It’s a very vital sense. Smell was also very important in the past and it was probably even more important because in the past not everything was so sanitized.

– Barbara Huber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since the space has been undergoing important conservation work in the last few years, and the collection was removed, it is reasonable to assume the scent has gone, now the preservation kit we created…(is) now the only existing archive of a lost heritage smell.

– Cecilia Bembibre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Last July I noticed my water kept getting a little bit redder and the smell was a little bit stronger.

– West Virginia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could smell the iron – there was so much blood.

– Kathlene Torres

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it.

– James Sherman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The smell was terrible and made it very hard to breathe, i was coughing a lot for a good two hours after.

– Joseph Fleck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The chemical smell was so strong that it made me nauseous, i just wanted to quickly pick up what I needed and leave. I only took a few pieces of clothes because even the clothes smelled like chemicals, and I ’m afraid to put them on my kids.

– Amanda Greathouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments.

– Andie MacDowell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Smell disorder typically resolved at about 9 months, but when they were present concentration and memory changes tended to be more persistent.

– Peter Openshaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

– Merlin Sheldrake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

There was all this popping and smoke, i can still smell the gunpowder to this day.

– Lynda Vanartsdalen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The sounds were loud and there were just a lot of them, you could smell the sulfur from the guns and debris was flying across the room and the students were crying.

– Dara Haas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Maybe I have a New York nose – I'm not smelling the filth. The number one thing I smell right now is pot – like everybody is smoking a joint now, you know?

– New York

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We were barbecuing the other day and Azeneth Rodriguez was like,' What is that smell, that burn smell ?' and I was like,' What is wrong ?' And he just said,' I smell that smoky smell -- and that's the way we were in the classroom.'.

– Noah Oronas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

' flowers while he's still well enough to smell them.

– Oprah Winfrey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since you cannot smell or see carbon monoxide, taking the appropriate steps and asking these important questions prior to signing anything is extremely important.

– Jennifer McCormick

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We smell tear gas and the children of one of the members are in the office sobbing with fear. I expect a [June]-24 committee to be created immediately.

– Some Republicans

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Oh God, You can smell it from here. how much have you had to drink tonight ?

– David Koechner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

The doors were barricaded with debris, i could see fleas and bugs and piles from floor to ceiling, and I can smell urine and feces.

– Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I smell a sell-out coming when it comes to Ukraine.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the Ukrainians can win but what breaks my heart is that it appears to me that Biden is more worried about Putin losing that Ukraine winning. And that is despicable and sad. i smell a sell-out coming when it comes to Ukraine.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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