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Category: social psychology

Posted on March 18, 2026March 17, 2026

“We look up in the skies today with a new awareness—knowing that ours may well be the last generation that thought itself alone.”—Arthur C. Clarke, British science and science-fiction writer, 1917-2008

Posted on March 5, 2026March 4, 2026

“The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 2, 2026March 2, 2026

“I think all the talk about age is foolish. Every time I’m one year older, everyone else is too.”—Gloria Swanson, American actress, 1899-1983

Posted on February 20, 2026March 2, 2026

“DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender” (abusers’ psychological manipulation strategy; gaslighting)—Jennifer Freyd, PhD; American psychologist; 1957-

Posted on January 19, 2026January 19, 2026

“Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination.”—Tim Dorsey (paraphrasing Ernest Hemingway), American novelist, 1961-2023

Posted on January 16, 2026

“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1926-2017

Posted on January 14, 2026

“Being president doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are.”—Michelle Obama, attorney and U.S. First lady, 1964–

Posted on January 9, 2026

“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.”—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor, 121 AD–180 AD

Posted on December 26, 2025

“The unscrupulous are always ready to profit from war.”—Christopher Fowler (‘Bryant & May: Peculiar London’), English author, 1953-2023

Posted on December 10, 2025December 9, 2025

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”—Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist, 1811-1884 (also attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

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