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“It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.”

Quote by John Money

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John Money (July 8, 1921 - July 7, 2006) was a renowned psychologist known for his groundbreaking research in the fields of gender identity, sexual psychology, and human development. more

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“If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.”

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“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”

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Book:The Man of Genius

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“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

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“God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.”

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“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand”

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Book:The Man of Genius

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“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses”

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“Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'”

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“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities”

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“Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.”

Thinking War Done Purpose Fighting Winning Goal Particular Sake

Book:Washington's Crossing

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“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.”

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