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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself m

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. – Thomas Szasz

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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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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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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. – Jean de La Fontaine

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I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and Ive been able to rectify those events. Its been a bit of a learning curve, which is good. – Jessica Ennis

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. – Norman Vincent Peale

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I am still learning every day not to watch other peoples careers and compare. – Joely Fisher

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