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"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"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."


"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."


"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family."


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


"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."


"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."


"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."


"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
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