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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 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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Love
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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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Consumerism
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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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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. – Yogi Berra

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Recognition

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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Recognition

The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

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Recognition

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

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Random Quotes

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. – Author Unknown

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Independence Day

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. – Elihu Root

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You must be willing to do the things today others dont do in order to have the things tomorrow others wont have. – Les Brown

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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself. – May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968

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