This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. -
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. -
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