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In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.


Thomas S. Szasz

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THOMAS S. MONSON Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with succe...
THOMAS S. MONSON We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
THOMAS S. MONSON I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.
THOMAS S. MONSON Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threaten...
THOMAS S. MONSON We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
THOMAS S. MONSON Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for ...
IAIN S. THOMAS Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our...
THOMAS S. MONSON I testify that this work in which we're engaged is the Lord's work. I've felt His sustai...
THOMAS S. MONSON There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testim...
THOMAS S. MONSON you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
THOMAS S. MONSON Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
THOMAS S MONSON There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Dare to be a Mormon.
Dare to stand alone.
Dare to have a purpose firm;
Dare to make...
THOMAS S. MONSON To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we...
THOMAS S. MONSON Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.
THOMAS S. MONSON Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S. The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER