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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Saul Bellow Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bernard Berenson Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Bruno Bettelheim Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Georges Bernanos Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Put my ear to the door / I just heard gunshots and hot rods and sirensPeople kill me these days / There's keys in their eyes but they lock from the inside
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    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alan Kay Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ann Beattie Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bob Cousy Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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