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The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

-Mignon McLaughlin

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The Neurotic Feels As Though Trapped In

Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

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Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. be heroes in an army of construction.

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