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Paul Watzlawick Quotes: Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
         

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.


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This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.



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A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'



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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place



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