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"The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens."
"Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough."
"We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail."
"I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness."
"I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world."
"Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted."
"I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in."
"My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you."
"when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say."
"To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine."
"Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right."
"A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing."
"You mellow too much you ripen and rot."
"My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo"
"The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right."
"Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore."
"In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much."
"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy."
"Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little."
"People cannot stand too much Reality."
