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• Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as…
• Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up…
• The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from.…
• Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
• Personality, too, is destiny.
• Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure.…
• Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
• You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things…
• Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
• Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be…
• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
• We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

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