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In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal. ↗

— Martin Freeman

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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

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

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