“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”
Philip G. Zimbardo book The Lucifer Effect
Source: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
“Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
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