The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences.


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Cement sales resumed to customers on Sunday, February 26 after the problem was identified and resolv...
ALICE HYDE
I began studying geography because I wanted to learn more about the world I live in.
ALICE HYDE
It is a lot of work trying to put this concert together. I have a lot of responsibilities. But I hav...
ALICE HOWES
We haven't worked together yet. We each have been doing our own section of the concert and will put ...
ALICE HOWES
It was a very long process. For instance, we have to take text or poetry, translate it into sign lan...
ALICE HOWES
We are both trying to find our own inspiration and movement. My inspiration is sign language.
ALICE HOWES
Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.
ALICE HOGAN
While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin...
ALICE HOGAN
While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin...
ALICE HOGAN
While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin...
ALICE HOGAN
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think...
ALICE HOFFMAN
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappea...
ALICE HOFFMAN
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always hel...
ALICE HOFFMAN
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
ALICE HOFFMAN
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishin...
ALICE HOFFMAN
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading i...
ALICE HOFFMAN
We're helping the survivors of Katrina, having our voices heard, and it's a great way to take back S...
ALICE HOFFMAN
I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern li...
ALICE HOFFMAN
The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det...
ALICE HAMILTON
Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON
No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
ALICE HAMILTON
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und...
ALICE HAMILTON
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation...
ALICE HAMILTON
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w...
ALICE HAMILTON
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON
Before moving to Utah, she raised dachshunds and Shetland ponies at the family home on Jackson Stree...
ALICE GILBORN
Before moving to Utah, she raised dachshunds and Shetland ponies at the family home on Jackson Stree...
ALICE GILBORN
She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail.
ALICE GILBORN
I learned that one has to be really focused and devote oneself if you're going to get into the anima...
ALICE GILBORN
She returned to Colorado with three children and an even larger assortment of animals, including a g...
ALICE GILBORN
Our job is to make sure the money is not diverted to fraudsters.
ALICE FISHER
We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are...
ALICE FISHER
This is not something the department should be getting involved with,
ALICE FISHER
We're going to act quickly and aggressively to detect any kind of fraud and vigorously pursue it if ...
ALICE FISHER
If it doesn't look right, chances are it's not,
ALICE FISHER
When individuals meet here in the shadow of our nation's capital to go prepare for violent action, w...
ALICE FISHER
[The standoff stems from an FBI e-mail revealed during recent litigation over detainee-abuse allegat...
ALICE FISHER
Philip Bloom admits offering millions in bribes so that he and his companies could receive contracts...
ALICE FISHER