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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see.
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Continually Look See Threat Unable Unwilling
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
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Art Big Secret True Want
It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
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Child Cultivated Encourage Feeling Form Reward Speaking Valued Wanting
People change, but there really are limits.
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Change Limit People Reality
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
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End Failed Hero Impractical Mean Pragmatist Unrealistic
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
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Dictate Everything Influence Nothing Past
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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Discover Grow Growing Up Unequal
When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe
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Comprehend Define Describe Ourselves Rather Recognize
Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..
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Appetite Cure Excesses Feeling Hopelessness Self
To our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need.
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Grudge Hook Meeting Mother Need never
Transgression is a quest for solitude
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Quest Solitude Transgression
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .
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Child Children Independent People Self Try
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
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Adulthood Believe Childhood Religion Solution
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
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Always Belief Destroy Destroying Love Need
You write to find out what you believe.
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Believe Find Out Writing
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
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Access Child Children Finding might Object Obstacle

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