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21 " ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. "
― Evelyn Waugh , Brideshead Revisited
22 " Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. "
23 " A study of the San Francisco Beat enclave by psychiatrist Dr. Francis Rigney in the late 1950's showed 60 percent " were so psychotic or crippled by tensions, anxiety and neurosis as to be nonfunctional in the competitive world." In contrast, the several studies released so far made of the student radicals at Berkeley show them to be stable, serious, and of above-average intelligence. The point is that the Beats had to " cop out" of the Rat Race because they couldn't perform; the New Left chooses to reject a society it could easily be successful in. "
24 " Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself. "
