"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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"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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