The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.
- Thomas Szasz
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If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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