Quote by Havelock Ellis
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in c

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis

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We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. – Havelock Ellis

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. – Charles Caleb Colton

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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. – Cyril Connolly

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant

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Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to take a step beyond that. – Terri Guillemets

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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. – Lucy Powell

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In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I dont know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but Im still doing the work I always wanted to do. – Greg Louganis

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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. – Howard Crosby

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