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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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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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Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,…
— Shimon Peres
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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ...…
— Brian Swimme
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My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a…
— Wallace Shawn
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Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain…
— Goswami Kriyananda
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in…
— Unknown Author
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