"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
-Thomas Szasz
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.“
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"If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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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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