“Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 2 (p. 61)
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Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 8 “Unrequited Hate” (p. 251)

Source: The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939), p. 253

“He makes his own paint and does not suffer from any erectile dysfunction or infection.”
[The Star staff, Pricasso's the name, painting the game, 28 September 2012, 3, The Star, South Africa, Independent Online]
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"Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapon," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 9. 1962, G2 — as reported in The Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/socialism.html: Objectivism from A to Z (1986)

Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers’ Congress (16 May 1967) “The Struggle Intensifies,” Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, ed. Leopold Labedz (1970).
“Man will take anything you like, except warning.”
"That a Burnt Child often Dreads the Fire".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Ch 6
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo