"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
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"For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'"
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"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
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"Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?"
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"A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line."
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"You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?"
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"Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence."
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"[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation."
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"Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector."
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"Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?"
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"Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you."
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"Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."
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"The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either."
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"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind."
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"A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God."
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"The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done."
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"...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm."
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"The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great."
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"He (the Sage) does not show off, therefore he shines."
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"Often does hatred hurt itself."
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