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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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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
— Oscar Wilde
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The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
— Maria Montessori
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
— Rene Dubos
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Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which…
— Herman E. Daly
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
— Aldo Leopold
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Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
— Rene Dubos
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Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture…
— Carl Rogers
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
— Cornell Capa
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We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search…
— Stanford Moore
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Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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