"You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible."

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“Everything happens for me, not to me.”

“Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.”

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

“If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.”

“What is is. You don’t get a vote. Haven’t you noticed?”

“There are no physical problems—only mental ones.”

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"To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and …"

— Reinhard Heydrich

1904–1942

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"I believe that today, under the circumstances of capitalism crisis and the ever-increasing anti-communist reaction, the matter of the approach to the figure of Stalin is not historical or personal, bu…"

— Viktor Tyulkin

Politics1951

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"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the…"

— Sigmund Freud

Psychology1856–1939

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