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“How many times do we pay for one mistake? … The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of animals pay once for every mistake they make. Buy not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves [...]

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. ~ Marilyn Ferguson
Taken out of context, and I were to read this quote, I would apply it to the fact that you cannot [...]

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Taken from Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
Some of the major conditions, desires and attitudes that must be given up in the course of a wholly successful evolving lifetime: 

The state of infancy, in which no external demands need to be responded to
The fantasy of omnipotence
The desire for total possession of one’s parent
The dependency of childhood
Distorted images of [...]

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