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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
 
Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something.
 
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
 
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
 
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
 
I am what I am because of who we all are. (Principle of Ubuntu philosophy)
 
Happiness is a state of mind.
 
We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon.
 
Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.
 
Chapter 3 discusses some unsettling research—stick your average person in a brain scanner, and show him a picture of someone of another race for only a tenth of a second. This is too fast for him to be aware of what he saw. But thanks to that anatomical shortcut, the amygdala knows . . . and activates. In contrast, show the picture for a longer time. Again the amygdala activates, but then the cognitive dlPFC does as well, inhibiting the amygdala—the effort to control what is for most people an unpalatable initial response.
 
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
 
Immagina di essere morto, di aver vissuto la tua vita. Poi vivi in modo appropriato quanto ti resta da vivere.
 
Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations, for the sake of an ideal of happiness that may never be realised.
 
Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
 
The recognition of the difference between appearance and reality is a human discovery.
 
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.
 
It is always easier for one man to solve another man's problem.
 
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
 
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
 
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.
 
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