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Knowledge is gained by learning trust by doubt skill by practice and love by love.

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Thomas Szasz
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: April 15
Died: 2012
Died: September 8
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Human Rights Activist
Psychiatrist
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
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I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.
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