People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.Thomas Szasz
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally ill if you want to exalt what a person is
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
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The many faces of intimacy the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
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