“When people are suffering, they usually hurt the people closest to them, because those are the only ones left around.”

— Malcolm Azania , book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 11 “Self-Distraction is Self-Destruction” (p. 325)

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Canadian politician 1969

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“Trump won the nomination because he was anti-left, not because of any political viewpoints, he was slapping people on the left and people on the right went, ‘Yeah, those people need to be slapped!”

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“When people are suffering, they usually hurt the people closest to them, because those are the only ones left around.”

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