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- No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
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- Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
- Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
- Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
- J.B. Priestley
- Sin is geographical.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), from "Daniel Deronda"
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