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"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
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"Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes."

"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."

"I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me."

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."

"I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way."

"I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman."
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"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."


"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."


"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."


"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."


"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
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