"An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient."

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Source : Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing”, p.97, Bantam

Barbara Brennan

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“Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.”

Source : Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”
“Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.”
“Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.”
“A life without a cause is a life without effect.”
“The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.”
“I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me. He gave me the words to defend myself and the argumentative rhetoric to master discussions with others.”
“You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?”

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