Quotes with pathological

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• A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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• Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

  Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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• For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.

  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

  Rene Dubos
  French-American microbiologist, pathologist and environmentalist
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• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• technological
• rediscovered
• associations
• interesting
• occurrence
• important

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