"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."

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Source : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Karl Kraus

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“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.”

Source : "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.
“Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.”

Source : "Jane Levy Talks EVIL DEAD, the Appeal of the Film’s Violence, Dealing with the Film’s Intensity, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 17, 2013.
“If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards”
“The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses.”
“Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.”
“Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.”

Source : David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books
“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”

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