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As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.


Theodore Sturgeon

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.
THEODORE TRONCHIN The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a...
THEODORE MUNGERS All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
THEODORE PARKER The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
THEODORE ROETHKE CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
THEODORE HESBURGH A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
THEODORE HESBURGH The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
THEODORE LEAVITT We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
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