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A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion it train people seeing it to react abnormally.

— William Moulton Marston

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The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women in all fields of human activity.

Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?

Your Life What are your prejudices? (1939)

Not even the church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion picture company.

Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.

The Emotions of Normal People (1928)

In the majority of cases which are brought to me as a consulting psychologist for love and marital adjustment, there are self-deceptions to be uncovered as well as attempts to deceive other people. Beneath such love conflicts there is almost always a festering psychological core of dishonesty.

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