Charles W. Socarides Quotes

Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

Charles W. Socarides

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• Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
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• I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

  

  Iman
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• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
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• I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Support
  • Best
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• It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • World
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• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

  

  Gale Norton
  • Why
  • Government
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• I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • She
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  • Prepare

• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
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• In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Important
  • Women
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• You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.

  

  Plato
  • Long
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• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

  

  Leon Uris
  • World
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• Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that they would challenge the government, but we have fought every challenge effectively. The daily ups and down of democracy should not be interpreted as lack of stability.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Political
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• How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Up
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• Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

  

  Jane Elliott
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• Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Profound
  • Blindness
  • Laughs

• ... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Jesus Christ
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• So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • Water
  • Gender
  • Please

• The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Body
  • Sense
  • Meditation

• My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

  

  Judith Hoag
  • Advice
  • Patient
  • Work Hard

• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Humor
  • Numbers

• Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

  

  Charles W. Socarides
  • Gender
  • Homosexuality
  • Disorder