Spencer Reid quotes from Criminal Minds

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"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them." Frank Clark

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"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil." Aristotle

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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret." Salvador Dalí

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"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." Hippocrates [NOTE: Although this quote is frequently attributed to Hippocrates, an exhaustive search by Quote Investigator has determined the earliest close match was spoken by Henry George Plimmer in 1899. Woods Hutchinson employed the saying repeatedly, starting in 1902, and pointed to Walter Moxon as creator of the expression, but no substantive support for this claim has been found. Therefore, the originator remains unknown.]

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Albert Einstein said, "In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

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"When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it." Émile Zola

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"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Joseph Campbell

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"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." Albert Einstein

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Wayne Dyer once said, "How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

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"Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow." Psalm 51

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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." Eugene Debs

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"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe

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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde

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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein

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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation." W. H. Auden