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Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

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I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

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How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

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Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

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I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U. S.

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I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

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