"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-Erich Fromm
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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.“
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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