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“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
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“Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
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“It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”
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“What's done to children, they will do to society.”
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“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
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“Any guy can love a thousand girls
But only a rare guy can love one girl
in a thousand ways”
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But only a rare guy can love one girl
in a thousand ways”
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“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right things, and chooses the right people for the wrong things. And most of all, they do not want to see it.”
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“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.”
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“Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.”
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“The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word, along with the notion. Why? Doesn’t anyone sin anymore? Doesn’t anyone believe in sin?”
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“Attitudes are more important than facts”
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“dementia”
― Psychoses Associated with Influenza
― Psychoses Associated with Influenza
“It becomes increasingly evident that some of the destruction which curses the earth is self-destruction; the extraordinary propensity of the human being to join hands with external forces in an attack upon his own existence is one of the most remarkable of biological phenomena.”
― Man Against Himself
― Man Against Himself
“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”
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