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No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not t

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. – 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. – Thomas Szasz

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Justice & Law
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If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. – Thomas Szasz

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God
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. – Marie Curie

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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. – Yvon Chouinard

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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. – Niels Bohr

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Your life may be the only Bible some people read. – Author Unknown

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – Howard Nemerov

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I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you. – Jewel

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I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. – Sebastian Bach

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