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Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

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I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

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Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

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Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

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If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

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The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.

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Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence

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In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.

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Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

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Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

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Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

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Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
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We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Beneficial Economically Except Expenditures
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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.

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Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

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Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

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What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

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Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

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1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

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To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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