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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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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon…
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish…
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What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.
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Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an…
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I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very…
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men…
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Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no…
— Oliver Sacks
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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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