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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true…
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if…
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All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot…
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds…
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The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes…
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and…
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through…
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It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most…
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Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we…
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called…
— Edmund Burke
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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel…
— Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
— William Samuel Johnson
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be…
— George Washington
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations:…
— P.D. James
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Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
— Edward Abbey
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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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