Altobelli Family Survivors Quotes & Sayings

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. — Robert A. Baker

A laboratory analogy to repression can be found in an experiment by A.F. Zeller.
Zeller arranged a situation so that one group of students underwent an unhappy "failure" experience right after they had successfully learned a list of nonsense syllables. When tested later, these subjects showed much poorer recall of the nonsense syllables compared to a control group, who had not experienced failure. When this same "failure" group was later allowed to succeed on the same task that they had earlier failed, their recall showed tremendous improvement. This experiment indicates that when the reason for the repression is removed, when material to be remembered is no longer associated with negative effects, a person no longer experiences retrieval failure. — Elizabeth F. Loftus

Listen to the whispers. — R.J. Palacio

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke — Robert Barr

I paused, allowing the — Larry Brooks