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1. "Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby." ~ Neil Strauss
2. "Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it." ~ Neil Strauss
3. "That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods." ~ Neil Strauss
4. "For all the self-improvement books I had read, I still wasn't above shallow validation-seeking. None of us were. That's why we were in the game. Sex wasn't about getting our rocks off; it was about being accepted." ~ Neil Strauss
5. "He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. "The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off." ~ Neil Strauss
6. "You don't shower or shave for a month, until you smell like a sewer. Then you walk around for two weeks wearing a dress and a goalie mask with a dildo strapped to the front. That's what I did. And I will never be afraid of public humiliation again." ~ Neil Strauss
7. "If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone." ~ Neil Strauss
8. "...Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw." [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. "I feel strange and empty, like after a shit." ~ Neil Strauss
9. "A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men." ~ Neil Strauss
10. "The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships." ~ Neil Strauss
11. "Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures." ~ Neil Strauss
12. "A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love." ~ Neil Strauss
13. "Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear." ~ Neil Strauss
14. "A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life." ~ Neil Strauss
15. "While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them." ~ Neil Strauss
16. "I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of." ~ Neil Strauss
17. "Dating is for tools." ~ Neil Strauss
18. "Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself." ~ Neil Strauss
19. "I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune." ~ Neil Strauss
20. "I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read." ~ Neil Strauss
21. "I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love." ~ Neil Strauss
22. "I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do." ~ Neil Strauss
23. "Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time." ~ Neil Strauss
24. "Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language." ~ Neil Strauss
25. "People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained." ~ Neil Strauss
26. "When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it." ~ Neil Strauss
27. "You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them." ~ Neil Strauss
28. "Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception." ~ Neil Strauss
29. "When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't." ~ Neil Strauss
30. "A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again." ~ Neil Strauss
31. "STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there?STRAUSS: No, I don't.RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there." ~ Neil Strauss
32. "In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps." ~ Neil Strauss
33. "It's not lying, it's flirting." ~ Neil Strauss
34. "We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it..." ~ Neil Strauss
35. "The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong." ~ Neil Strauss
36. "I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't finish what they start; they don't live what they dream; they sabotage their own progress because they're afraid they won't find what they seek." ~ Neil Strauss
37. "In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed." ~ Neil Strauss
38. "That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground" ~ Neil Strauss
39. "God is on the side of the winner." ~ Neil Strauss
40. "We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are." ~ Neil Strauss
41. "To win the game was to leave it." ~ Neil Strauss

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Each person should examine his own work … not in respect to someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load. Galatians 6:4–5"
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