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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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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from…
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will…
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its…
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's…
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into…
— John Taylor Gatto
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When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why…
— Esther Hicks
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random…
— Mary McGrory
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