Fortele Fizice Quotes & Sayings

Are you glad, or sorry?" "About children?" She glanced at his face. He seemed to have no awareness of having hit a sore point dead on. "They just haven't come my way, I guess." The — Lois McMaster Bujold

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

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. — Mary Schmich

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. — Tim Powers

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He was somewhat of a loner by temperament
because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people. — Colin Dexter