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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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The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. – Erich Fromm

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We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. – Erich Fromm

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

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I wouldnt say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. – Bette Midler

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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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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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. – William Penn

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. – Isadora Duncan

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. – Christopher Lasch

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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