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21 " Burl Ives singing children’s songs. "
― Sherry Turkle , The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
22 " I saw the authentic rather than the rebuilt or enhanced. "
23 " You can’t think about thinking without thinking about something "
24 " It taught me this: The most insecure people often seem like the most obnoxious ones. "
25 " A classical view of people as “rational animals” gave way to a new idea, people as “emotional machines. "
26 " We can’t relate to others until we are comfortable with ourselves. That’s a psychoanalytic first principle: If you don’t teach your children to be alone, they’ll only know how to be lonely. "
27 " Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants we went to when we “ate out. "
28 " Americans were once inner-directed. Now they had become other-directed, seeking identity in external validation. "
29 " every society shapes the therapies it can use. "
30 " Saltwater gargles. Lemon and honey. A drop of ipecac on the tongue. Hot milk at bedtime. "
31 " I notice things. "
32 " Rule-based thinking could be used to avoid considering the person at hand. "
33 " Our first question must always be: What are we trying to maximize with our inventions? "
34 " Our capacity for solitude is undermined as soon as we introduce a screen. "
35 " empathy requires vulnerability. "
36 " My mother had wanted to erase her life with him, he said. "