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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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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
— Doris Egan
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In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do…
— Dwight L. Moody
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If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk…
— Isidore of Seville
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We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.
— H. Emilie Cady
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Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
— Paulo Coelho
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If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
— Thomas Szasz
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
— Thomas Szasz
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Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
— Lily Tomlin
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When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
— Jane Wagner
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If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten…
— Robert Fulghum
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When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that,…
— C.S. Lewis
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God talks incessantly. But, as it turns out, mankind is deaf.
— Don Williams Jr
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