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Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time. — Susan Cain

Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course. — Jonathan Nolan

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul. — Ringo Starr

You cannot win a war outside until you have won the war that you are fighting inside you first. — Akshay Vasu

Children observe everything with caution. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza

We are just good friends. This sentence is enough to destroy at least one person. — Sarvesh Jain

For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other. — Andreas Capellanus

Prototype frames. Among the most important of the commonplace frames are the prototype frames, where you reason about a category on the basis of some subcategory (real or imagined). The best known is the social stereotype. For instance, both conservatives and progressives use stereotypes of immigrants, though very different ones. — George Lakoff

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.' — David Hewson

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York. — Layne Staley

While in general I avoid the use of torture - torture locates the opponent and mobilizes resistance - the threat of torture is useful to induce in the subject the appropriate feeling of helplessness and gratitude to the interrogator for withholding it. And torture can be employed to advantage as a penalty when the subject is far enough along with the treatment to accept punishment as deserved. To this end I devised several forms of disciplinary procedure. One was known as the Switchboard. Electric drills that can be turned on at any time are clamped against the subject's teeth; and he is instructed to operate an arbitrary switchboard, to put certain connections in certain sockets in response to bells and lights. Every time he makes a mistake the drills are turned on for twenty seconds. The signals are gradually speeded up beyond his reaction time. Half an hour on the Switchboard and the subject breaks down like an overloaded thinking machine. — William S. Burroughs