"Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women."
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"My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do."
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"After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?""
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"I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions"
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"A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium."
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"If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message."
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"No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things."
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"Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves."
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"Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion."
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".. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtious circle of proactivity."
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"The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite."
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"In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons."
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"Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses."
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"What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions."
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"Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
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"The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys."
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"Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend."
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"I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no."
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"Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society."
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"In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions."
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