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"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
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"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention."
"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."
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"I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse."
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"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs."
"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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