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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to b

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – 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 mothers side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. – Erich Fromm

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Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. – Erich Fromm

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Only the insecure strive for security. – Wayne Dyer

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Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad. – B. E. Hutchinson

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When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer. – Harry Browne

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words cant dishearten it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. – Marvin Minsky

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Its true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. – Benazir Bhutto

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