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“advertising symbolizes the art of making people dissatisfied with what they have.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“At the entrance of the Nazi concentration camps were large signs bearing the cynical slogan: Arbeit macht frei (“Work makes man free”). This”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“The fear of freedom is the fear of assuming responsibility.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“Lima beans, watermelons, potatoes, eggplants, and cabbages are among the many other familiar crops whose wild ancestors were bitter or poisonous, and”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“New Guineans old and young routinely eat mice, spiders, frogs, and other small animals that peoples elsewhere with access to large domestic mammals or large wild game species do not bother to eat. Protein”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“farmers are sedentary and live amid their own sewage, thus”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“In the Middle Ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe, rather than from Europe to Islam as it is today. Only after around A.D. 1500 did the net direction of flow begin to reverse.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“technology was less advanced in western Europe than in any other “civilized” area of the Old World until the late Middle Ages.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

“Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At”
― Robert A. Glover, No More Mr. Nice Guy

“Self-respect, courage, and integrity look good on a man. As recovering Nice Guys chart their own”
― Robert A. Glover, No More Mr. Nice Guy

“They may lack confidence in their ability to leave a romantic relationship when and if necessary. Fear of abandonment eclipses all other matters, including their own happiness in a relationship.”
― Stan Tatkin, Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style Can Help You Find Your Ideal Mate