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People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise


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Praise, if you don't swallow it, can't hurt you.
ANONYMOUS They'll swallow anything, and if they can't swallow it, they'll tear pieces until they can eat it.
JARRON LUCAS A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
INGRID NEWKIRK Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON That is sufficiently certain which can be made certain
LEGAL MAXIM It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
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PHILIP ZIMBARDO The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressu...
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in ...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines ...
EPICTETUS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Happiness from the fulfillment of induced desires can only be temporary.
TAPAN GHOSH Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
LYTTON STRACHEY When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be ind...
CHARLES FORT anything else?
ANYTHING Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
DEREK LANDY Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
ANONYMOUS A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
PIET HEIN The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
LALAH DELIA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It?s not a requirement. It?s not a law. All we can do is provide people with information and they ca...
DAVE STONE The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the devic...
DON NORMAN To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
ALICE WALKER But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY An inconvenient truth is still truth, nonetheless, whether you accept it or don't. The best thing yo...
DEBORAH SIMPSON It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othel...
VING RHAMES Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where ...
GARY COLEMAN Our goal is to provide people with some choice.
MARK REINHARDT Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more season...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
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VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE [GIVING HIS OPINION ABOUT ROSS PEROT'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN] If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER To congratulate potential is to provide one with a mental trophy for not doing what can be done.
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HAL CAPPS It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existen...
PAUL VON HINDENBURG Eternal vigilance is the price of libertypower is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand e...
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PABLO PICASSO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Maybe I've got to be sufficiently broken by life's many broken promises to be sufficiently compelled...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Too much praise lowers level of performance. Of course this will not happen in all individuals; ever...
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ELIOT ENGEL For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is a...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the c...
NICK HANAUER It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES F. COOPER It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
MARILYN MONROE Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
ALLAN FROMME DR. Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
ALLAN FROMME, DR. No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.
DANIEL ANDREWS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne sa...
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H. P. LOVECRAFT Anything is possible.
You can always have the life you dream of.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN ...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly...
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DEBORAH NIGRELLI It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a dif...
AMIT KALANTRI If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou...
JENNIFER BROWN People who have been so hurt hesitate to pardon, ... It is so easy to say 'sorry' but in reality her...
ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA People who have been so hurt hesitate to pardon. It is so easy to say 'sorry' but in reality here it...
ABDELAZIZ BENSMAIL You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordi...
EDMUND HILLARY I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say...
WARSAN SHIRE My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my b...
EDWARD UGEL There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be ...
WERNER HEISENBERG The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingal...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing [on Shane Warne]
ARJUNA RANATUNGA What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.
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ALBERT BANDURA You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
MOLIERE I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
MOLIERE It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
MOLIERE To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed,...
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion...
MOLIERE All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political b...
MOLIERE People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and le...
MOLIERE There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
MOLIERE Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though...
MOLIERE Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
MOLIERE Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then f...
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...
MOLIERE Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety
MOLIERE Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world ...
MOLIERE One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked though...
MOLIERE As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt...
MOLIERE Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
MOLIERE Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in...
MOLIERE We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyon...
MOLIERE Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it
MOLIERE The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
MOLIERE Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.
MOLIERE People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.
MOLIERE Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE Ah that I- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This sui...
MOLIERE Birth is nothing where virtue is not
MOLIERE Ah! Valere, all men say the same thing to women; all are alike in their words; their actions only sh...
MOLIERE What the devil did he want in that galley?
MOLIERE You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.
MOLIERE All the power is with the sex that wears the beard
MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots.
MOLIERE It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
MOLIERE The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married
MOLIERE I want to be understood; to be quite frank, the friend of the human race is not in the least my role...
MOLIERE Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain
MOLIERE I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others
MOLIERE How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE Assassination's the fastest way.
MOLIERE My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE Virtue in this world should be malleable.
MOLIERE I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.
MOLIERE Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.
MOLIERE There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco do...
MOLIERE Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE Things only have the value that we give them
MOLIERE Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLIERE According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
MOLIERE It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
MOLIERE To live without loving is not really to live
MOLIERE It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives witho...
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE