"Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public.……" — Ben Marcus
"Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect."
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33 Quotes by Ben Marcus
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