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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
Man
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
Maturity
"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
Age
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Man
"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
Intelligence
"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are."
People
"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
Family
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
Happiness
"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
Love
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
Certainty
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