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“الضمير: لا يمنعنا من فعل الأشياء السيئة ..
ولكنه يُزعج ما تبقى فينا من أخلاق .. ويُعكر المتعة!”
― محمد الرطيان

“كل ما أفعله، هو أنني ألعب بالـ "ك ل م ا ت" فتصبح : لكمات”
― محمد الرطيان, كتاب !

“The Seven Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“من أنا؟ و من أكون؟
هل أنا , أنا حقاً؟ ام نسخة مصغرة من نحن؟”
― علي الماجد

“وهناك في الأخير أشياء، يخشى المرء أن يكشف عنها، حتى لنفسه هو بالذات.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“نحن نعيش في أولادنا حياة ثانية يا أمير.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Uncle's Dream

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The most effective self-control is not through willpower and exerting effort to stifle impulses and unwanted behaviors. It comes from effectively harnessing the unconscious powers of the mind to much more easily do the self-control for you.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“By using unconscious means to self-regulate, making "necessary evils" such as healthy eating and exercising and studying a routine part of their lives, they make the positive activities a routine habit so that they don't need to fight to get started, or overcome the disinclination to do them. Conscious and effortful self-control is too taxing and too unreliable, and as we know, vulnerable to rationalizations and excuses.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“We have this bias toward attractiveness because of out selfish-gene history: the unconscious mandate to reproduce, reproduce, reproduce, so that we as species don't go extinct. This deep-seated urge is so strong that studies have shown that men's mating motives are triggered by the mere presence of attractive women, even when they are trying to focus on something else.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“When we trust another person, such as a friend to whom we tell something very private, we make ourselves vulnerable, but it is a risk we are willing to take in order to make that relationship even closer.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“When we come into the world, we have the innate tendencies, motivations, and goals that make up nature's effect, anticipating to some extent the general conditions of our life, but then nurture's effect takes over to adapt us to the actual conditions on the ground.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“Why do you suppose teenagers like scary horror movies so much? Because physiological arousal from watching, say, ax-wielding maniacs or malevolent spirits transfers into sexual feelings and attraction to the person they're seeing the movie with.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

“Almost every generation believes that art and music and the work ethic and you name it aren't as good as they used to be ... historians have noted how the belief that society is changing for the worse is a constant going back thousands of years.”
― John A. Bargh, Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do