"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
-Erich Fromm
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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.“
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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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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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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