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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation."
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"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
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"I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it."
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"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."
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"Misery is a communicable disease."
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"The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread."
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"In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease."
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"A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility."
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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Chaos
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
Government
"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
Lie
"Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality, when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash."
Productivity
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
Truth
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."
Religion
"Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice."
Ethics
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Man
"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
Concern
"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
Education
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