It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

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