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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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Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.
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If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian…
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That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed…
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One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed…
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The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from…
— Eric Hoffer
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Your perceptions are derived from your feelings and your ability to be yourself, to own and trust yourself, and to say what…
— Barbara Marciniak
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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one…
— Ronald Reagan
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Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are…
— Timothy Keller
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Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
— Chuck D
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Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot…
— Josh McDowell
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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