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One Who Shows Signs Of Mental Aberration Is, Inevitably, Perhaps, But Cruelly, Shut Off From Familiar, Thoughtless Intercourse, Partly Excommunicated; His Isolation Is Unwittingly Proclaimed To Him On Every Countenance By Curiosity, Indifference, Aversion, Or Pity, And In So Far As He Is Human Enough To Need Free And Equal Communication And Feel The Lack Of It, He Suffers Pain And Loss Of A Kind And Degree Which Others Can Only Faintly Imagine, And For The Most Part Ignore.

The Thing That Moves Us To Pride Or Shame Is Not The Mere Mechanical Reflection Of Ourselves But The Imagined Effect Of This Reflection Upon Another's Mind.

The Idealist's Program Of Political Or Economic Reform May Be Impracticable, Absurd, Demonstrably Ridiculous; But It Can Never Be Successfully Opposed Merely By Pointing Out That This Is The Case. A Negative Opposition Cannot Be Wholly Effectual: There Must Be A Competing Idealism; Something Must Be Offered That Is Not Only Less Objectionable But More Desirable.

Form The Habit Of Making Decisions When Your Spirit Is Fresh...to Let Dark Moods Lead Is Like Choosing Cowards To Command Armies.

The Most Effective Way Of Utilizing Human Energy Is Through An Organized Rivalry, Which By Specialization And Social Control Is, At The Same Time, Organized Co-operation.