"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."

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"The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation."

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"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."

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"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."

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"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

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"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

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"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."

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"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."

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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Experience, Science, Thought, Logic

"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

Experience, Key, Network

"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

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"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer

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"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."

Alvin Adams, American Businessman

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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

Freda Adler, American Educator

Experience, Perceptions

"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Experience, Intellect

"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."

Renata Adler, Italian Journalist

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