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Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that

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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – 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 task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. – Erich Fromm

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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. – Elbert Hubbard

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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. – John Buchan

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Puns are a form of humor with words. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France. – Paul Prudhomme

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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but Ive always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did. – Sally Kirkland

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