Cabeau Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't hard to find such data. For example, between 1948 and 1954, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered theymselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was revisited in 1989, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent of boys and 77 percent of girls. Psychologists have a thing called the narcissism test. They read people statements and ask if the statements apply to them. Statements such as "I like to be the center of attention ... I show off if I get the chance because I am extraordinary ... Somebody should write a biography about me." The median narcissism score has risen 30 percent in the last two decades. Ninety-three percent of young people score higher than the middle score just twenty years ago.4 The largest gains have been in the number of people who agree with the statements "I am an extraordinary person" and "I like to look at my body. — David Brooks

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.' — William Golding

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men. — Thomas Hughes

Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — William Cowper

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless. — Vladimir Lenin

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. — Jules Renard

You look at the forest with two eyes, but the forest looks at you with hundred eyes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been. — Charles Godfrey Leland