37 Quotes by Celia Green

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    People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

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    It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

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    It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

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    Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

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    The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

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    In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

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    It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

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    It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

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