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• Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing…
• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about…
• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never…
• Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
• People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both…
• Empathy grows as we learn.
• Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes…
• The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
• Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It…
• People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve…
• Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as…
• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it.…

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