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Anthony Storr has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true…
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if…
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All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot…
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds…
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The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes…
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and…
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through…
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It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most…
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Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we…
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
— Charles Lyell
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the…
— H. L. Mencken
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In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
— Unknown Author
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation…
— Roderick Murchison
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An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth…
— Seth Shostak
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened…
— Ambrose Bierce
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With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
— Anthony Storr
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There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk…
— Anthony Burgess
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God: a gaseous vertebrate.
— Aldous Huxley
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I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists…
— Greg Graffin
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The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or…
— August Krogh
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