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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. – Anthony Storr

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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: Ive seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. – Anthony Storr

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Sympathy
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I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you. – Anthony Storr

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Morning
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. – Anthony Storr

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Happiness
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My relationship to gravity is permanently altered. – Steven Jesse Bernstein

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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that were always trying to live up to. – Andrew Cohen

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Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. – Paul Berg

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I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works. – Ira Levin

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He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. – Isaac Asimov

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My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara. – Eric Stoltz

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