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Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.
 
Women are meant to be loved....not to be understood.
 
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
 
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
 
The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation.
 
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
 
History is made by historians. No event becomes a historic event unless historians turn it into one.
 
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
 
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
 
There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
 
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
 
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
 
The secret to humor is surprise.
 
Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.
 
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
 
COMMITTEE: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
 
If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.
 
Do not give your children moral and religious instruction unless you are quite sure they will not take it too seriously. Better be the mother of Henri Quatre and Nell Gwynne than of Robespierre and Queen Mary Tudor.
 
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.
 
Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something.
 
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