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-Thomas Szasz
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"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.“
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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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