"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."

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Source : Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

Thomas Szasz

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“The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.”
“Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.”

Source : "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.
“As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.”
“Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.”
“More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.”
“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”
“And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.”

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