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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.
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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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As the internal-combustion engine runs on gasoline, so the person runs on self-esteem.
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Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
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We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
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Know your enemies: avoid them if you can; intimidate them, if you can't; subdue them, if you must.
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
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The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
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Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
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The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
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What had been drapetomania became depression.... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery.
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Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
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Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
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The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
April 15, 1920
Died:
September 8, 2012
(aged 92)
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