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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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