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We should train ourselves in the use of imagination when we are well, so that we are ready to use it when we are not.

— Laura Huxley You Are Not The Target (1963)

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Scientific research is the art of asking the right question in the right way.

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There are almost as many ways of helping people to feel better as there are human beings.

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You alone can change yourself, and when you do, then circumstances and people will both seem and be changed.

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Like any other faculty, imagination can be starved and suffocated or stimulated and nourished.

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In all its manifestations and however it is produced, not-love tends to beget not-love. The energy of love is needed to reconvert not-love into love.

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