"Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party."

-- Jane Addams

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“It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.”
“Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.”

Source : "Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book compiled by Kate Louise Roberts, www.bartleby.com. 1922.
“I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.”
“Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.”
“Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.”
“I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself, itâ€™s a mistake for me. I have learned through my friendships and through people that Iâ€™ve met who survived. Thereâ€™s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I donâ€™t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who donâ€™t invalidate me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.”
“Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.136

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