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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Confer Hand Possibility Power Responsibility Something
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Being Betray Express Idea Listen Original Own
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Make Myth Sense Senseless Way World
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Argue Fortunately Good Longer Love Necessary Self
The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Deed Establish Esteem Largely Perform Self Society Those Try Violence
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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Acorn Automatic Become Commitment Growth Mean Necessary Oak

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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