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Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
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The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.
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Better a dish of illusion, one might say, and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.
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Harry Allen Overstreet
Born:
October 25, 1875
Died:
August 17, 1970
(aged 94)
Bio:
Harry Allen Overstreet was an American writer and lecturer, and a popular author on modern psychology and sociology. His 1949 book, The Mature Mind, was a substantial best-seller that sold over 500,000 copies by 1952.
Known for:
What We Must Know about Communism (1958)
The strange tactics of extremism (1964)
A Guide to Civilized Leisure (1934)
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