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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
Phyllis Bottome
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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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