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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

~Karl A. Menninger

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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

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What's done to children, they will do to society.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

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We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 22nd, 1893

Died: July 18th, 1990

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