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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.


R.D. Laing

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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MARSHALL MCLUHAN Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Love is a chemical reaction,
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And ...
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PEARL ZHU A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
MARK ARDIS Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH SPINOZA We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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FENG ZHANG Understanding is standing under something together.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
ANATOLE FRANCE Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Perfect love cannot be without equality.
SCOTTISH PROVERB France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Souls cannot be saved without exertion.
ELLEN G. WHITE There is no love of life without despair of life.
ALBERT CAMUS There is not love of life without despair about life.
ALBERT CAMUS Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
OSCAR LEVANT I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.
MILTON ROKEACH Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
MARK VONNEGUT The world cannot be governed without juggling.
JOHN SELDEN A man without regrets cannot be cured.
ARISTOTLE A race cannot be purified from without.
ANNA JULIA COOPER Diversity cannot be well without the within
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Men cannot have peace that surpasseth the understanding, unless he surpasses his own stupid understa...
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ALBERT CAMUS The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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JONATHAN HARNISCH Without the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind.
MADONNA A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERB A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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OCTAVIO PAZ “Greatness cannot be achieved without passion of purpose"
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TROY J. GAINEY Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understand...
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PLATO You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
MARK TWAIN Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
HENRIK TIKKANEN Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
GURU NANAK The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
LESLIE STEPHEN A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
MARK TWAIN When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken.
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