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Today is the birthday of Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 - July 18, 1990), author and psychiatrist. He is best known as a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. The Menninger Clinic achieved national and international recognition for clinical excellence in the treatment and research of mental illness.

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." - Karl Menninger

"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. " - Karl Menninger

"Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people." - Karl Menninger

"It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one." - Karl Menninger

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." - Karl Menninger

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