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Quote by Erich Fromm
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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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Erich Fromm

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. – Sloane Crosley

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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. – Patrick Dempsey

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An eagle does not catch flies. – Proverb

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Its cool now to play golf. – Tiger Woods

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