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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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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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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. – Thomas Szasz

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Learning
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Man can never be a womans equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Nature

Although Im an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. – Camille Paglia

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Nature

A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

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Please all, and you will please none. – Aesop

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My heart is so light that its amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. Its hysterically funny. I am very light. – Linda Hamilton

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I have an almost religious zeal — not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. – Dan Millman

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In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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