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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. ↗

— Scott Adams

#argue #battles #candy #cents #dinner

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch. ↗

— Adele

#be happy #constantly #enough #fail #get

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#because #condition #family #investigation #life

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

— Alfred Adler

#must #neglect #never #own #patient

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#pattern #relationship #sex #society #test

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#attempt #awkward #cradle #cure #every

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#country #duty #every #every man #his

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#cooperation #human #inhuman #loathsome #must

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ↗

— Freda Adler

#another #controversies #era #find #knowledge

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#could #doth #ever #every #experience