"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
-Erich Fromm
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"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
-Erich Fromm
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
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"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
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"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e. e. cummings
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
-Anais Nin
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
-Maya Angelou
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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