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"I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering."
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"It will no doubt be agreed that there are multitudes of these defiant, aggressive types in our culture. But they do not frequent psychoanalysts' offices because our competitive culture (in which, to a considerable extent, the individual who can aggressively exploit others without conscious guilt feeling is 'succesful') supports and 'cushions' them to a greater extent than the opposite types. It is generally the culturally 'weak' individuals who get to the psychoanalyst; for in cultural terms they have the 'neurosis' and the succesfully agressive person does not."
"Discipline is needed in our family lives."
"Always be organized in adding value."
"Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order."
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"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it."
"Life does not despise the discipline."
"Time is the chronological breakdown of life."
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"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
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"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."
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