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“The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.”
―A. Harvey Block

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“I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
―Sigmund Freud

Source/Notes:
Psycho-analysis and faith: the letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister (1963 edition)

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
―Robert A. Heinlein

Source/Notes:
Quoted as a proverb in Heinlein's book "Glory Road" (1963)

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
―Thomas Jefferson

Source/Notes:
(Attributed)

“Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.”
―Thomas Malthus

Source/Notes:
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798), Chapter I

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
―Simone de Beauvoir

Source/Notes:
The Second Sex (1949)

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