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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society…
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and…
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to…
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers…
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Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive…
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick…
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other…
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that…
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Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond.…
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Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say,…
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense…
— Nick Cave
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you…
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are…
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take…
— Seneca the Younger
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Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
— C.S. Lewis
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal…
— Simone Weil
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If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
— Pat Buchanan
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
— Marquis de Sade
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I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen…
— Stephen King
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Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the…
— Freeman Dyson
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