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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 
 
Effort supposes resistance.
 
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
 
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
 
DESTINY: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
 
There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.
 
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 
 
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
 
Ignorance is no excuse once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
 
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
 
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
 
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real.
 
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
 
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. 
 
I learned how to dig a hole in the ground and bury myself so the fire would burn over me. Never had to use it since, but I'm ready.
 
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
 
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
 
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
 
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
 
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