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Attitudes are much more important than facts.

Karl A. Menninger

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Karl A. Menninger
Age: 96 †
Born: 1893
Born: July 22
Died: 1990
Died: July 18
Academic
Businessperson
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Topeka
Kansas
Karl Augustus Menninger
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Attitudes
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Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
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The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It 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 hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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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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Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.
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Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
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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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