"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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"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.“
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