A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. - Alfred Adler

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Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.

Alfred Adler

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

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Man knows much more than he understands.

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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

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What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.

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Elvis Mitchell

I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such an awful, condescending movie that debases African participation, and anything I can do to shift that and draw attention to rich and widely varied films that come from there- because there's all kinds of filmmakers from Senegal, you have Mambety, and Haroun with Grigris.

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The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

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