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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves

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. – 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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana

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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. – Raoul Vaneigem

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I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California – its the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees. – Eric Burdon

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Its surreal to know my dreams are coming true. – Mario Vazquez

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It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. – Sir Winston Churchill

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My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of todays music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. – Roberta Flack

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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. – Peter Medawar

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