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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essential

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – 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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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. – Erich Fromm

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Whatever is popular deserves attention. – James Mackintosh

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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who? – Jay London

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One cant relive ones life. Forgiveness is not whats difficult ones always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, thats obvious. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Friends… they cherish one anothers hopes. They are kind to one anothers dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

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