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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
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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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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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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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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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