"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
-Thomas Szasz
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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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"If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
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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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"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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"Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver."
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-Robert Frost
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-Hector Berlioz
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
-Denis Waitley
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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