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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's 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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“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain

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“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” — Socrates

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill

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“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” — Stephen Hawking

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