It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society … - Thomas Szasz

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There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.

Thomas Szasz

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

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