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| 1. | A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting. |
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| 2. | A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. |
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| 3. | A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. |
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| 4. | But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. |
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| 5. | Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. |
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| 6. | He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. |
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| 7. | I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. |
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| 8. | If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. |
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| 9. | If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. |
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| 10. | If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. |
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| 11. | If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. |
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| 12. | If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. |
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| 13. | It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. |
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| 14. | One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. |
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| 15. | The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. |
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| 16. | The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. |
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| 17. | The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. |
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| 18. | To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. |
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| 19. | To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. |
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| 20. | We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. |
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| 21. | We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. |
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| 22. | We may define therapy as a search for value. |
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| 23. | What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. |
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| 24. | What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. |
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| 25. | When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. |
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