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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 3 months ago
It felt weird being in a house with my dad and his girlfriend with none of my brothers, i was just so alone. He was a truck driver, so it was very seldom that we saw him. But that’s how he paid the bills. I also became really sensitive about my weight and the things that I ate. I think it was a way to punish Shasta Groene. I developed an eating disorder at a very young age. If I ate, I made Shasta Groene throw up. I then started self-harming. I was hiding a lot from my dad. And then he got throat cancer. He almost died from it. So much has happened that I never fully got to heal. – Shasta Groene	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems - can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives. – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi	added by Normando 2 years ago
Sexual assault survivors are seldom subjected to having their testimony publicly broadcast. But she knew that her truth enabled others to not suffer as she has, we owe it to Jane Doe and to future Jane Does. – John McCrostie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We people of color very seldom get a good verdict, i’m kind of amazed. – Monroe Skinaway	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Although he has more leasure than almost anyone, the indifference ,appathy if one preferes, of the lower class person is such that he seldom makes even the simplest repaires to the place that he lives in. He is not troubled by dirt or dilapidation and he does not mind the inadequacy of public facilities such as schools, parks hospitals and libraries. Indeed, where such things exist, he may destroy them by carelessness or even by vandalism. – Edward C. Banfield	added by anonymous 3 years ago
It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 3 years ago
I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard. – Jacqueline Bisset	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Today is about pursuing common sense and fighting -- fighting for a cause like we seldom get the chance to fight for. – The President	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Sir Isaiah Berlin	added by Normando 4 years ago
Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 4 years ago
Hatred seldom reaches its intended target it only reveals the true ugliness of the perpetrator. – Darrell Urban Black	added by Art of Definism 4 years ago
MUFON proclaims its dedication to the scientific method in UFO investigations, but it seldom lives up to that ideal. – Robert Sheaffer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 4 years ago
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. ....Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors. – H. L. Mencken	added by Normando 5 years ago
It is a negotiation. Negotiations seldom go smooth all the way through. – Jon Tester	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don't think there has been more than 1 or 2 attorneys in the United States that have dealt with a position like this, very seldom do you find a mass murderer having assets. – Alice Denton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Very seldom do I get involved in primaries and right now you're two years away from elections, ask me maybe in a year and a half or something. – Chuck Grassley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
One thing I learned during the Obama years is that when you look the other way regarding problems in the Middle East, it seldom works out. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 5 years ago
My father would seldom shy away from disagreeing, but nor would Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if you couldn't give him a good argument, he might think less of you. – Justice Scalia	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I prefer shooting to shopping and — although I might look girly, I am far from it, as far as anything else; well, as much as there is written about me, there is so much more to me. No one truly knows me but my family and I often surprise them once in a while. Mystery and controversy have always stood guard beside me, seldom allowing folks to get close enough to know more about me and I kind of like that, so let’s stop there. – Stephanie Adams	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
At present, visitors to Hong Kong from mainland China tend to fly in for one or two days, mostly for shopping, and seldom travel to other areas in the Pearl River Delta. – Marcos Chan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Very seldom do you Live, mostly it’s the Mind that lives through YOU! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 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
3 months ago

It felt weird being in a house with my dad and his girlfriend with none of my brothers, i was just so alone. He was a truck driver, so it was very seldom that we saw him. But that’s how he paid the bills. I also became really sensitive about my weight and the things that I ate. I think it was a way to punish Shasta Groene. I developed an eating disorder at a very young age. If I ate, I made Shasta Groene throw up. I then started self-harming. I was hiding a lot from my dad. And then he got throat cancer. He almost died from it. So much has happened that I never fully got to heal.

– Shasta Groene

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems - can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.

– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi

added by Normando
2 years ago

Sexual assault survivors are seldom subjected to having their testimony publicly broadcast. But she knew that her truth enabled others to not suffer as she has, we owe it to Jane Doe and to future Jane Does.

– John McCrostie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We people of color very seldom get a good verdict, i’m kind of amazed.

– Monroe Skinaway

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Although he has more leasure than almost anyone, the indifference ,appathy if one preferes, of the lower class person is such that he seldom makes even the simplest repaires to the place that he lives in. He is not troubled by dirt or dilapidation and he does not mind the inadequacy of public facilities such as schools, parks hospitals and libraries. Indeed, where such things exist, he may destroy them by carelessness or even by vandalism.

– Edward C. Banfield

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
3 years ago

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

– Jacqueline Bisset

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Today is about pursuing common sense and fighting -- fighting for a cause like we seldom get the chance to fight for.

– The President

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

– Sir Isaiah Berlin

added by Normando
4 years ago

Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

Hatred seldom reaches its intended target it only reveals the true ugliness of the perpetrator.

– Darrell Urban Black

added by Art of Definism
4 years ago

MUFON proclaims its dedication to the scientific method in UFO investigations, but it seldom lives up to that ideal.

– Robert Sheaffer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
4 years ago

I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. ....Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

– H. L. Mencken

added by Normando
5 years ago

It is a negotiation. Negotiations seldom go smooth all the way through.

– Jon Tester

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I don't think there has been more than 1 or 2 attorneys in the United States that have dealt with a position like this, very seldom do you find a mass murderer having assets.

– Alice Denton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Very seldom do I get involved in primaries and right now you're two years away from elections, ask me maybe in a year and a half or something.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

One thing I learned during the Obama years is that when you look the other way regarding problems in the Middle East, it seldom works out.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My father would seldom shy away from disagreeing, but nor would Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if you couldn't give him a good argument, he might think less of you.

– Justice Scalia

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I prefer shooting to shopping and — although I might look girly, I am far from it, as far as anything else; well, as much as there is written about me, there is so much more to me. No one truly knows me but my family and I often surprise them once in a while. Mystery and controversy have always stood guard beside me, seldom allowing folks to get close enough to know more about me and I kind of like that, so let’s stop there.

– Stephanie Adams

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

At present, visitors to Hong Kong from mainland China tend to fly in for one or two days, mostly for shopping, and seldom travel to other areas in the Pearl River Delta.

– Marcos Chan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Very seldom do you Live, mostly it’s the Mind that lives through YOU!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

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