Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
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Hypnosis
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Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis."
Aesop
Fabulist
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."
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"To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life."
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"It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing."
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"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."
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"I've tried body surfing. It's nice."
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
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"Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali."
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"Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning."
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"It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning."
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"I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self."
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"The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free."
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"What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning."
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"Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky."
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"Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio."
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