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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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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

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I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference. ↗

— Freddy Adu

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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Man knows much more than he understands. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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